How do judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1996 / Served to 2010

Margaret H. Marshall

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Margaret H. Marshall was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1996–2010 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Marshall authored 312 published opinions for the court (1997–2010), plus 11 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Duracraft Corp. v. Holmes Products Corp. (245 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. 337 of these were attributed to Marshall 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
1998	Duracraft Corp. v. Holmes Products Corp.†	427 Mass. 156	245
1997	Hakim v. Massachusetts Insurers' Insolvency Fund†	424 Mass. 275	223
2004	Marram v. Kobrick Offshore Fund, Ltd.†	442 Mass. 43	208
2003	Goodridge v. Department of Public Health†	440 Mass. 309	186
2002	Commonwealth v. Azar†	435 Mass. 675	186
2005	Sullivan v. Liberty Mutual Insurance†	444 Mass. 34	154
1998	Dartt v. Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.†	427 Mass. 1	135
2000	Adoption of Vito†	431 Mass. 550	128
2010	Commonwealth v. Vasquez	456 Mass. 350	127
2010	Commonwealth v. Tyree†	455 Mass. 676	126
2006	Hershenow v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.†	445 Mass. 790	123
2005	Twin Fires Investment, LLC v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.†	445 Mass. 411	121
1998	Adoption of Hugo†	428 Mass. 219	118
1998	Commonwealth v. Vinnie†	428 Mass. 161	118
1997	Commonwealth v. James†	424 Mass. 770	118

Showing the 15 most-cited of 345 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Margaret H. Marshall on?: Margaret H. Marshall was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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