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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1960 / Served to 1976

Milford K. Smith

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Milford K. Smith was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1984
Tenure: 1960–1976 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 263 published opinions for the court (1960–1976), plus 8 dissents. Most cited: Richard v. Richard (46 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. 271 of these were attributed to Smith 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
1973	Richard v. Richard†	300 A.2d 637	46
1976	Rock of Ages Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes†	360 A.2d 63	39
1961	Fuller v. City of Rutland†	171 A.2d 58	36
1967	Savard v. Cody Chevrolet, Inc.†	234 A.2d 656	35
1976	Spabile v. Hunt†	360 A.2d 51	32
1974	Glabach v. Sardelli†	321 A.2d 1	31
1976	Audette v. Greer†	360 A.2d 66	30
1963	Miller v. Miller†	197 A.2d 488	30
1962	Killary v. Burlington-Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce, Inc.†	186 A.2d 170	30
1960	Towle v. St. Albans Publishing Co.†	165 A.2d 363	30
1968	Experiment in International Living, Inc. v. Town of Brattleboro†	238 A.2d 782	29
1976	Mattison v. Poulen†	353 A.2d 327	27
1964	Little v. Little†	124 Vt. 178	27
1962	Norton & Lamphere Construction Co. v. Blow & Cote, Inc.†	183 A.2d 230	27
1976	State v. Woodard†	353 A.2d 321	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 271 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 Milford K. Smith on?: Milford K. Smith was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).