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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1949

John S. Buttles

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

John S. Buttles was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1949
Tenure: 1937–1949 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Vermont
New York Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Buttles authored 113 published opinions for the court (1934–1949), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Duchaine, B.N.F. v. Ray (42 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1939	Duchaine, B.N.F. v. Ray	6 A.2d 28	42
1943	Kelbro, Inc. v. Myrick	30 A.2d 527	41
1940	Howe v. Lisbon Savings Bank & Trust Co.	14 A.2d 3	36
1944	Barrell v. Renehan	39 A.2d 330	31
1941	In Re Walker Estate. Treadway	22 A.2d 183	28
1944	Roddy v. Estate of Fitzgerald	35 A.2d 668	25
1945	MacAuley v. Hyde	42 A.2d 482	22
1938	Village of Waterbury v. Melendy	199 A. 236	22
1941	McKirryher v. Yager	24 A.2d 331	21
1944	Hall v. Village of Swanton	35 A.2d 381	20
1949	Olcott v. Southworth	63 A.2d 189	18
1943	Long v. Leonard	32 A.2d 679	18
1942	Stone v. Briggs	26 A.2d 828	18
1946	State v. Persons	46 A.2d 854	17
1944	State v. Wilson	37 A.2d 400	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 John S. Buttles on?: John S. Buttles was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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12 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).