How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1954 / Served to 1962

Howard W. Bramhall

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Howard W. Bramhall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1954–1962 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bramhall authored 14 published opinions for the court (1955–1961), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bellanca Corporation v. Bellanca (43 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 18 of these were attributed to Bramhall by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1961	Bellanca Corporation v. Bellanca· Dissent†	169 A.2d 620	43
1959	Board of Education, Laurel Sp. Sch. Dist. v. Shockley†	155 A.2d 323	29
1957	Delaware Optometric Corporation v. Sherwood· Concurrence†	128 A.2d 812	29
1960	Mayor and Council of Wilmington v. Dukes†	157 A.2d 789	26
1958	In Re Estate of Keil· Dissent†	145 A.2d 563	22
1955	In Re the Application of Diamond State Telephone Co.†	113 A.2d 437	20
1957	Robins v. Garvine†	136 A.2d 549	13
1957	Evans v. Gunnip†	36 Del. Ch. 589	11
1961	State Highway Dept. v. Delaware Power & Light Co.	167 A.2d 27	10
1958	Newark Trust Company v. Bruwer· Dissent†	141 A.2d 615	10
1959	Board of Education v. Shockley†	52 Del. 277	8
1961	Lewes Trust Co. v. Grindle†	53 Del. 396	5
1959	Jacobs v. Jacobs†	52 Del. 174	3
1959	Malcom v. Dorseman†	51 Del. 480	2
1958	Halko v. State†	51 Del. 328	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Howard W. Bramhall on?: Howard W. Bramhall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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8 years on the Supreme Court of Delaware. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).