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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1953 / Served to 1956

Paul A. Chase

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Paul A. Chase was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1963
Tenure: 1953–1956 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chase authored 30 published opinions for the court (1927–1955). Most cited: Landry v. Hubert (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. 16 of these were attributed to Chase 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
1928	Landry v. Hubert	141 A. 593	22
1955	Wall v. A. N. Derringer, Inc.†	117 A.2d 390	13
1955	Chevalier v. Tyler†	111 A.2d 722	12
1955	Stone v. Blake†	110 A.2d 702	10
1928	Town of Bennington v. Booth	140 A. 157	10
1954	Abell v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.†	102 A.2d 847	9
1954	Johnstone v. Bushnell†	102 A.2d 334	9
1954	Sivret v. Knight†	109 A.2d 495	8
1954	Vermont Salvage Corp. v. Northern Oil Co.†	109 A.2d 267	7
1954	Miller Chevrolet Co. v. Sears†	108 A.2d 529	7
1954	Fletcher v. Manning†	105 A.2d 264	6
1929	Burke v. Beecher	144 A. 200	6
1928	Wing v. Martin	141 A. 602	6
1955	Portland Pipe Line Corp. v. Morrison†	110 A.2d 700	5
1954	Painter v. Nichols†	108 A.2d 384	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 30 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 Paul A. Chase on?: Paul A. Chase was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).