How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 2007

Mel L. Greenberg

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Mel L. Greenberg was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1990–2007 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Greenberg authored 264 published opinions for the court (1991–2007), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Cady v. Marcella (53 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. 228 of these were attributed to Greenberg 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
2000	Cady v. Marcella†	49 Mass. App. Ct. 334	53
1991	Kelly v. DIMEO, INC. WATERPROOFING CO.	581 N.E.2d 1316	45
2000	Donovan v. Gardner†	50 Mass. App. Ct. 595	44
1998	Rubenstein v. Royal Insurance of America†	44 Mass. App. Ct. 842	39
1994	Arthur D. Little, Inc. v. East Cambridge Savings Bank†	35 Mass. App. Ct. 734	39
1993	Harnois v. QUANNAPOWITT DEVELOPMENT, INC.	619 N.E.2d 351	39
1996	Parker v. D'Avolio†	40 Mass. App. Ct. 394	38
2005	Global NAPs, Inc. v. Verizon New England, Inc.†	63 Mass. App. Ct. 600	32
1994	Petricca Construction Co. v. Commonwealth†	37 Mass. App. Ct. 392	32
1991	Commonwealth v. Booker	578 N.E.2d 815	32
1991	Welch v. Keene Corp.	575 N.E.2d 766	32
2003	Goulart v. Canton Housing Authority†	57 Mass. App. Ct. 440	31
2001	Kelly v. Brigham & Women's Hospital†	51 Mass. App. Ct. 297	30
2004	Skowronski v. Sachs†	62 Mass. App. Ct. 630	25
1998	Reproductive Rights Network v. President of the University of Massachusetts†	45 Mass. App. Ct. 495	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 274 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 Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Mel L. Greenberg on?: Mel L. Greenberg was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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