How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Former Justice

Maureen McKenna Goldberg

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Maureen McKenna Goldberg was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Providence College
Suffolk University

Judicial Record

In our data, Goldberg authored 414 published opinions for the court (1997–2019), plus 19 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Lischio v. Zoning Board of Review of North Kingstown (141 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. 359 of these were attributed to Goldberg 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
2003	Lischio v. Zoning Board of Review of North Kingstown	818 A.2d 685	141
1998	Center for Behavioral Health, Rhode Island, Inc. v. Barros†	710 A.2d 680	121
2001	Webster v. Perrotta	774 A.2d 68	107
2009	Lynch v. Spirit Rent-A-Car, Inc.†	965 A.2d 417	82
2009	State v. Clark†	974 A.2d 558	75
2003	United Lending Corp. v. City of Providence	827 A.2d 626	74
2008	Iselin v. Retirement Board of the Employees' Retirement System†	943 A.2d 1045	70
2004	Mill Realty Associates v. Crowe	841 A.2d 668	70
2005	Plunkett v. State	869 A.2d 1185	66
2006	In Re Brown†	903 A.2d 147	65
1998	Bandoni v. State†	715 A.2d 580	65
2009	Waterman v. Caprio†	983 A.2d 841	63
2013	Patricia Sullo v. David Greenberg†	68 A.3d 404	60
2005	McKenna v. Williams· Concurrence†	874 A.2d 217	56
2010	Berman v. Sitrin†	991 A.2d 1038	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 458 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Maureen McKenna Goldberg on?: Maureen McKenna Goldberg was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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