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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1945 / Served to 1949

Nathaniel Tompkins

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Nathaniel Tompkins was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1949
Tenure: 1945–1949 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Colby College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Tompkins authored 23 published opinions for the court (1946–1949). Most cited: Levine v. Reynolds (22 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. 23 of these were attributed to Tompkins 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
1947	Levine v. Reynolds†	143 Me. 15	22
1947	Sacre v. Victor L. Sacre People's Savings Bank†	143 Me. 80	21
1947	Curtis v. Jacobson†	142 Me. 351	20
1948	Josselyn v. Dearborn†	143 Me. 328	16
1947	State v. Hudon†	142 Me. 337	15
1948	Lipman v. Thomas†	143 Me. 270	14
1946	Henderson v. Berce†	142 Me. 242	14
1946	Perry v. Butler†	142 Me. 154	14
1948	Blue v. Boisvert†	143 Me. 173	13
1949	Inman v. Willinski†	144 Me. 116	12
1948	Medomak Canning Co. v. York†	143 Me. 190	12
1948	State v. Koliche†	143 Me. 281	10
1946	State v. Calanti†	142 Me. 59	9
1948	Production Credit Ass'n v. Kent†	143 Me. 145	8
1949	Paulsen v. Paulsen†	144 Me. 155	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Nathaniel Tompkins on?: Nathaniel Tompkins was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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