How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 2001 / Served to 2012

James E. Duggan

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

James E. Duggan was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 2001–2012 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Duggan authored 418 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 24 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Bean v. Red Oak Property Management, Inc. (418 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. 295 of these were attributed to Duggan 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
2004	Bean v. Red Oak Property Management, Inc.†	151 N.H. 248	418
2003	In re Estate of King†	149 N.H. 226	72
2009	Mikell v. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT NO. 33	972 A.2d 1050	70
2011	Wyle v. Lees†	162 N.H. 406	59
2004	Porter v. City of Manchester†	151 N.H. 30	57
2007	Blagbrough Family Realty Trust v. a & T Forest Products, Inc.	917 A.2d 1221	50
2004	Carbone v. Tierney†	151 N.H. 521	45
2004	Arcidi v. Town of Rye†	150 N.H. 694	42
2007	In Re Conner	931 A.2d 1252	41
2010	Gray v. Kelly†	161 N.H. 160	39
2007	Chase v. Ameriquest Mortgage Co.	921 A.2d 369	39
2006	DeBenedetto v. CLD Consulting Engineers, Inc.†	153 N.H. 793	39
2010	General Insulation Co. v. Eckman Construction	992 A.2d 613	37
2009	State v. Russell	986 A.2d 515	37
2003	LaMontagne Builders, Inc. v. Bowman Brook Purchase Group†	150 N.H. 270	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 460 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 New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was James E. Duggan on?: James E. Duggan was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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