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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Former Justice

Marilyn S. Skoglund

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Marilyn S. Skoglund was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1997 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Skoglund authored 351 published opinions for the court (1997–2019), plus 46 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Bock v. Gold (160 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. 316 of these were attributed to Skoglund 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
2008	Bock v. Gold· Concurrence†	2008 VT 81	160
1997	Cabot v. Cabot· Concurrence†	697 A.2d 644	125
2000	Bull v. Pinkham Engineering Assocs., Inc.	752 A.2d 26	121
2002	Powers v. Office of Child Support	795 A.2d 1259	103
1999	Tarrant v. Department of Taxes	733 A.2d 733	92
2004	Doe v. Forrest· Dissent†	2004 VT 37	79
2004	Wesco, Inc. v. Sorrell†	177 Vt. 287	73
2000	State v. Lussier· Dissent†	757 A.2d 1017	72
1998	Town of Hinesburg v. Dunkling†	711 A.2d 1163	70
2000	State v. Boyea· Concurrence†	765 A.2d 862	69
2003	State v. Sprague†	2003 VT 20	66
2000	Richart v. Jackson	758 A.2d 319	61
2000	In Re Appeal of Miserocchi	749 A.2d 607	57
2001	Northern Security Insurance v. Perron	777 A.2d 151	55
2009	State v. Hinchliffe†	2009 VT 111	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 419 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 Marilyn S. Skoglund on?: Marilyn S. Skoglund was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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28 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).