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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

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Jospeh M. Jabar

Associate Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Jospeh M. Jabar is an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1967 · age 59
Tenure: Since 2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Colby College
University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Jabar authored 170 published opinions for the court (2010–2024), plus 26 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: In re M.B. (66 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. 202 of these were attributed to Jabar 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
2013	In re M.B.†	2013 ME 46	66
2014	Passadumkeag Mountain Friends v. Board of Environmental Protection†	2014 ME 116	55
2016	James A. Ehret v. Deborah B. Ehret†	2016 ME 43	52
2014	Matthew W. Pitts v. Amanda M. Moore· Concurrence†	2014 ME 59	50
2014	Philip C. Tobin v. Philip N. Barter†	2014 ME 51	49
2017	Dana Desjardins v. Michael Reynolds· Dissent†	2017 ME 99	43
2015	Elizabeth Brown v. Delta Tau Delta†	2015 ME 75	39
2016	Drilling & Blasting Rock Specialists, Inc. v. Paul Rheaume†	2016 ME 131	36
2010	Rainey v. Langen†	998 A.2d 342	33
2012	Budge v. Town of Millinocket· Dissent†	55 A.3d 484	32
2010	Searle v. Town of Bucksport· Dissent†	2010 ME 89	32
2015	Bank of America, N.A. v. Scott Greenleaf†	2015 ME 127	31
2013	Robert Duffy v. Town of Berwick†	2013 ME 105	31
2012	State v. Bailey†	2012 ME 55	29
2013	Judy Sparks v. Brant Sparks†	2013 ME 41	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 202 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Jospeh M. Jabar on?: Jospeh M. Jabar is an Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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16 years on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).