How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1922 / Served to 1957

Hugh B. Baker

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Hugh B. Baker was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1922. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1922–1957 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1922	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Baker authored 468 published opinions for the court (1913–1956), plus 12 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Lichtenstein v. Parness (39 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. 35 of these were attributed to Baker 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
1953	Lichtenstein v. Parness· Dissent†	99 A.2d 3	39
1937	Owens v. Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows Co.	192 A. 158	36
1935	Opinion of the Court to the Governor in the Matter of the Constitutional Convention· Dissent	178 A. 433	36
1949	Sepe v. Daneker	68 A.2d 101	29
1936	Prata Undertaking Co. v. State Board of Embalming & Funeral Directing	182 A. 808	27
1951	Woodbury v. Zoning Board of Warwick	82 A.2d 164	26
1915	Weber v. American Silk Spinning Co.	95 A. 603	26
1949	State v. Garnetto	63 A.2d 777	24
1945	Olevson v. Narragansett Zoning Bd.	44 A.2d 720	24
1918	State Mutual Life Assurance Co. v. Bessett	102 A. 727	21
1917	Sherwood Ice Co. v. U. S. Casualty Co.	100 A. 572	21
1953	State v. Berberian	98 A.2d 270	19
1936	Darman v. Zilch	186 A. 21	19
1953	Wood v. Peckham	98 A.2d 669	18
1949	Bianchini v. Bianchini	68 A.2d 59	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 481 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Hugh B. Baker on?: Hugh B. Baker was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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