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 1979 / Served to 1986

John W. King

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

John W. King was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1996
Tenure: 1979–1986 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, King authored 231 published opinions for the court (1979–1986), plus 12 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Dellorfano (97 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. 147 of these were attributed to King 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
1986	State v. Dellorfano†	128 N.H. 628	97
1986	Barnes v. New Hampshire Karting Ass'n†	128 N.H. 102	56
1983	Laconia Rod & Gun Club v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	123 N.H. 179	45
1983	State v. Chaisson	123 N.H. 17	45
1982	State v. Thresher	122 N.H. 63	43
1986	State v. Kilgus†	128 N.H. 577	41
1982	Montrone v. Maxfield	122 N.H. 724	41
1985	Cutter v. Town of Farmington†	126 N.H. 836	36
1984	State v. Wong· Dissent†	125 N.H. 610	35
1983	Pickering v. Frink	123 N.H. 326	35
1984	City of Concord v. Tompkins†	124 N.H. 463	34
1983	White v. Lee†	124 N.H. 69	34
1983	State v. Woodbury†	124 N.H. 218	33
1981	State v. LaClair	121 N.H. 743	33
1981	State v. Hudson	121 N.H. 6	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 248 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 W. King on?: John W. King was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).