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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1993 / Served to 2007

Howard H. Dana Jr.

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Howard H. Dana Jr. was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1993–2007 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dana authored 303 published opinions for the court (1993–2007), plus 47 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: McAfee v. Cole (166 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. 353 of these were attributed to Dana 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
1994	McAfee v. Cole· Dissent†	637 A.2d 463	166
2005	Kroeger v. Department of Environmental Protection· Dissent†	2005 ME 50	102
2005	Farrington's Owners' Ass'n v. Conway Lake Resorts, Inc.†	878 A.2d 504	93
1996	June Roberts Agency, Inc. v. Venture Properties, Inc.†	676 A.2d 46	88
2000	Holland v. Sebunya· Dissent†	2000 ME 160	73
1998	State v. Coombs· Dissent†	1998 ME 1	71
2001	State v. Sawyer†	2001 ME 88	57
1998	Zip Lube, Inc. v. Coastal Savings Bank†	1998 ME 81	56
2001	Seacoast Hangar Condominium II Ass'n v. Martel†	775 A.2d 1166	53
2000	State v. Holloway†	2000 ME 172	53
2004	Sager v. Town of Bowdoinham· Concurrence†	845 A.2d 567	52
2006	Cobb v. Board of Counseling Professionals Licensure· Dissent†	2006 ME 48	51
1999	Webb v. Haas†	1999 ME 74	48
1994	Musk v. Nelson· Dissent†	647 A.2d 1198	47
2005	State v. Schofield†	2005 ME 82	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 355 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Howard H. Dana Jr. on?: Howard H. Dana Jr. was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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