How do judges of the Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Served to 2004

Jeffrey L. Amestoy

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Jeffrey L. Amestoy was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1997–2004 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Hobart William Smith Colleges
University of California-San Francisco

Judicial Record

In our data, Amestoy authored 97 published opinions for the court (1997–2004), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Baker v. State (168 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. 49 of these were attributed to Amestoy 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
1999	Baker v. State	744 A.2d 864	168
1999	White v. Quechee Lakes Landowners' Ass'n†	170 Vt. 25	146
1999	Brueckner v. Norwich University	730 A.2d 1086	128
1998	Appeal of Weeks†	712 A.2d 907	121
1999	Richards v. Town of Norwich	726 A.2d 81	97
2003	L'ESPERANCE v. Benware†	2003 VT 43	77
2004	In re Carter· Dissent†	176 Vt. 322	74
2001	Springfield Hydroelectric Co. v. Copp	779 A.2d 67	74
2000	State v. Lussier· Dissent†	757 A.2d 1017	72
2004	State v. Oscarson· Concurrence†	2004 VT 4	69
2003	State v. Sprague· Concurrence†	2003 VT 20	66
2001	In Re White· Dissent†	779 A.2d 1264	62
2003	In Re Appeal of Casella Waste Management, Inc.	2003 VT 49	52
2002	State v. Lipka· Dissent†	817 A.2d 27	51
2000	Sorge v. State	762 A.2d 816	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 117 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 Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Jeffrey L. Amestoy on?: Jeffrey L. Amestoy was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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