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 1995 / Served to 2010

John T. Broderick Jr.

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

John T. Broderick Jr. was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1995–2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–
1995	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

College of the Holy Cross
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Broderick authored 411 published opinions for the court (1996–2010), plus 19 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Karch v. BayBank FSB (72 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. 449 of these were attributed to Broderick 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
2002	Karch v. BayBank FSB†	147 N.H. 525	72
2008	Lassonde v. Stanton†	956 A.2d 332	53
2002	In re Letendre†	149 N.H. 31	49
1999	Mahoney v. Shaheen, Cappiello, Stein & Gordon, P.A.†	143 N.H. 491	49
1996	State v. Chick†	141 N.H. 503	47
2005	State v. Littlefield†	152 N.H. 331	46
2003	State v. Goss· Dissent†	150 N.H. 46	46
1996	Weaver v. Royal Insurance Co. of America†	140 N.H. 780	43
2003	Big League Entertainment, Inc. v. Brox Industries, Inc.†	149 N.H. 480	42
1996	State v. Melcher†	140 N.H. 823	40
2009	State v. Kousounadis†	986 A.2d 603	39
2007	Everitt v. General Electric Co.†	932 A.2d 831	39
2001	State v. Fortier†	146 N.H. 784	38
1996	Bronson v. Hitchcock Clinic†	140 N.H. 798	37
2007	In Re Costa†	937 A.2d 288	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 449 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 John T. Broderick Jr. on?: John T. Broderick Jr. was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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15 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).