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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 2003 / Active

Paul L. Reiber

Chief Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Paul L. Reiber is a Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: Since 2003 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Hampden-Sydney College
Suffolk University

Judicial Record

In our data, Reiber authored 249 published opinions for the court (2004–2019), plus 44 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Rheaume v. Pallito (158 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. 261 of these were attributed to Reiber 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
2011	Rheaume v. Pallito	2011 VT 72	158
2009	City of Burlington v. Fairpoint Communications, Inc.	2009 VT 59	116
2014	Mahoney v. Tara, LLC†	197 Vt. 412	73
2007	State v. Bauder· Dissent†	181 Vt. 392	66
2010	Prive v. Vermont Asbestos Group†	2010 VT 2	51
2008	Northern Security Insurance Co. v. Mitec Electronics, Ltd.†	184 Vt. 303	49
2008	In Re Appeal of Times & Seasons, LLC†	183 Vt. 336	49
2010	Conley v. Crisafulli†	188 Vt. 11	47
2009	In Re Sisters & Bros. Investment Group, LLP†	2009 VT 58	46
2013	In re D.D.†	194 Vt. 508	43
2014	In re D.S., In re M.H.†	196 Vt. 325	40
2011	In re SP Land Co., LLC, Act 250 LUP Amendment· Dissent†	190 Vt. 418	40
2008	Towns v. Northern Security Insurance· Dissent†	2008 VT 98	38
2018	Eric Gross and Adrianne Gross v. Elizabeth Turner and Antonio Flores†	195 A.3d 654	37
2010	In Re Village Associates Act 250 Land Use Permit· Concurrence†	998 A.2d 712	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 307 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 is Paul L. Reiber on?: Paul L. Reiber is a Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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22 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).