How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1947

James H. Hudson

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

James H. Hudson was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1947
Tenure: 1933–1947 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Colby College

Judicial Record

In our data, Hudson authored 100 published opinions for the court (1934–1946), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Smith (50 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. 103 of these were attributed to Hudson 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
1944	State v. Smith†	140 Me. 255	50
1940	Maine Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Androscoggin Junior, Inc.†	137 Me. 154	40
1945	State v. McKrackern†	141 Me. 194	33
1942	State v. Bobb· Concurrence†	138 Me. 242	31
1934	Saliem v. Glovsky†	132 Me. 402	28
1936	State v. King†	135 Me. 5	24
1935	Rose v. Osborne†	133 Me. 497	21
1939	Jordan v. Gaines†	136 Me. 291	20
1935	State v. Old Tavern Farm, Inc.· Dissent†	133 Me. 468	20
1935	Palmer v. Inhabitants of Sumner†	133 Me. 337	20
1934	Hill v. Finnemore†	132 Me. 459	19
1936	Keith Theatre Inc. v. Vachon†	134 Me. 392	18
1943	Brooks v. Jacobs†	139 Me. 371	15
1938	Benson v. Inhabitants of Newfield†	136 Me. 23	15
1940	Kirk v. Yarmouth Lime Co.†	137 Me. 73	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 James H. Hudson on?: James H. Hudson 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).