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 2014 / Former Justice

James T. Vaughn

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

James T. Vaughn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

Duke University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Vaughn authored 728 published opinions for the court (2015–2023), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Genuine Parts Co. v. Cepec (107 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. 17 of these were attributed to Vaughn 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
2016	Genuine Parts Co. v. Cepec· Dissent†	137 A.3d 123	107
2016	Rauf v. State· Dissent†	145 A.3d 430	70
2015	Starling v. State· Concurrence†	130 A.3d 316	62
2017	The Williams Companies, Inc. v. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.	159 A.3d 264	53
2015	Murphy & Landon, P.A. v. Pernic· Dissent†	121 A.3d 1215	51
2015	Hecksher v. Fairwinds Baptist Church, Inc.· Dissent†	115 A.3d 1187	49
2017	State v. Reyes	155 A.3d 331	45
2015	Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. v. Arteaga· Dissent†	113 A.3d 1045	42
2016	State v. Wright	131 A.3d 310	38
2016	Roos Foods v. Guardado†	152 A.3d 114	36
2017	Shrewsbury v. The Bank of New York Mellon	160 A.3d 471	30
2016	Ketler v. PFPA, LLC	132 A.3d 746	29
2015	Sykes v. State	147 A.3d 201	26
2015	Milligan v. State	116 A.3d 1232	22
2018	Norman v. All About Women, P.A.	193 A.3d 726	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 738 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 James T. Vaughn on?: James T. Vaughn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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12 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).