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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1934 / Served to 1955

John C. Sherburne

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

John C. Sherburne was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1959
Tenure: 1934–1955 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Vermont
University of Vermont

Judicial Record

In our data, Sherburne authored 222 published opinions for the court (1928–1955), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. Barnett (39 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. 47 of these were attributed to Sherburne 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
1939	State v. Barnett· Dissent	3 A.2d 521	39
1938	State v. Deso	1 A.2d 710	36
1952	State v. Teitle†	90 A.2d 562	34
1949	Troy Conference Academy v. Town of Poultney	66 A.2d 2	34
1941	Burton v. Holden & Martin Lumber Co.	20 A.2d 99	34
1952	First Nat. Bank of St. Johnsbury v. Laperle	86 A.2d 635	31
1951	Petitions of New England Tel. & Tel. Co.†	80 A.2d 671	30
1946	Holton Estate v. Ellis	49 A.2d 210	29
1947	State v. Baker	53 A.2d 53	28
1952	Anton v. Fidelity & Cas. Co. of New York†	91 A.2d 697	25
1948	Abatiell v. Morse	56 A.2d 464	25
1940	First Nat'l B'k v. Comr. of Taxes	16 A.2d 184	25
1935	Bennett v. Robertson	177 A. 625	25
1954	Vermont Securities, Inc. v. Vermont Unemployment Compensation Commission†	104 A.2d 915	24
1942	Johnson v. Cone	28 A.2d 384	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 224 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 C. Sherburne on?: John C. Sherburne was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 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).