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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1938 / Served to 1958

Olin M. Jeffords

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Olin M. Jeffords was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1964
Tenure: 1938–1958 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston University
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jeffords authored 150 published opinions for the court (1937–1957), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: In Re New England Tel. & Tel. Co. (81 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. 52 of these were attributed to Jeffords 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
1949	In Re New England Tel. & Tel. Co.	66 A.2d 135	81
1942	Little v. Loud	23 A.2d 628	44
1943	Vermont Salvage Corp. v. Village of St. Johnsbury	34 A.2d 188	40
1947	Reed, Admr. v. Rosenfield	51 A.2d 189	39
1939	State v. Barnett	3 A.2d 521	39
1944	Russell v. Pilger	37 A.2d 403	35
1941	Packard v. Quesnel	22 A.2d 164	35
1956	Donoghue v. Smith†	126 A.2d 93	29
1947	State v. Baker· Dissent	53 A.2d 53	28
1940	State v. Boudreau	16 A.2d 262	28
1938	Town of Manchester v. Town of Townshend	2 A.2d 207	26
1946	State v. Watson	49 A.2d 174	25
1944	Roddy v. Estate of Fitzgerald· Dissent	35 A.2d 668	25
1943	Nelson v. Travelers Insurance	30 A.2d 75	25
1941	Bliss v. Moore Stoughton	22 A.2d 315	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 154 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 Olin M. Jeffords on?: Olin M. Jeffords was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 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).