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 2000 / Served to 2006

Joseph P. Nadeau

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Joseph P. Nadeau was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 2000–2006 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Nadeau authored 205 published opinions for the court (2000–2005), plus 15 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lambert (325 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. 228 of these were attributed to Nadeau 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
2001	State v. Lambert†	147 N.H. 295	325
2002	Brzica v. Trustees of Dartmouth College†	147 N.H. 443	62
2004	Carignan v. New Hampshire International Speedway, Inc.†	151 N.H. 409	55
2005	Van Der Stok v. Van Voorhees†	151 N.H. 679	46
2003	State v. Goss†	150 N.H. 46	46
2004	Carbone v. Tierney· Dissent†	151 N.H. 521	45
2003	State v. Hull†	149 N.H. 706	45
2005	Baines v. New Hampshire Senate President†	152 N.H. 124	43
2001	State v. Hight†	146 N.H. 746	43
2002	In re Nyhan†	147 N.H. 768	39
2001	Simplex Technologies, Inc. v. Town of Newington†	145 N.H. 727	38
2003	Conservation Law Foundation v. New Hampshire Wetlands Council†	150 N.H. 1	36
2004	State v. McKinnon-Andrews†	151 N.H. 19	35
2004	State v. Moran†	151 N.H. 450	33
2003	State v. Ayer†	150 N.H. 14	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 228 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 Joseph P. Nadeau on?: Joseph P. Nadeau was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).