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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1990

Louis P. Peck

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Louis P. Peck was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1901–2008
Tenure: 1981–1990 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Peck authored 264 published opinions for the court (1981–1990), plus 22 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Langle v. Kurkul (115 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. 297 of these were attributed to Peck 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	Langle v. Kurkul· Concurrence†	510 A.2d 1301	115
1985	Ass'n of Haystack Property Owners, Inc. v. Sprague†	494 A.2d 122	75
1981	State v. Baldwin†	438 A.2d 1135	66
1986	Payne v. Rozendaal· Dissent†	520 A.2d 586	64
1988	State v. Peck†	547 A.2d 1329	63
1988	Coty v. Ramsey Associates, Inc.†	546 A.2d 196	59
1989	In Re Vitale· Dissent†	563 A.2d 613	57
1988	State v. Parker†	545 A.2d 512	53
1985	State v. Hamlin†	499 A.2d 45	53
1983	Desjarlais v. Gilman†	463 A.2d 234	52
1988	State v. Record†	548 A.2d 422	51
1982	Senesac v. Assoc. in Obstetrics & Gynecology†	449 A.2d 900	51
1984	State v. Nash†	479 A.2d 757	50
1990	Kelly v. Town of Barnard†	583 A.2d 614	49
1988	State v. Hunt†	555 A.2d 369	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 299 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 Louis P. Peck on?: Louis P. Peck was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).