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 1992 / Served to 2005

Paul L. Rudman

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Paul L. Rudman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1992–2005 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rudman authored 334 published opinions for the court (1992–2005), plus 19 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: McAfee v. Cole (166 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. 347 of these were attributed to Rudman 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
1994	McAfee v. Cole†	637 A.2d 463	166
1998	State v. Michaud†	1998 ME 251	97
1996	Rippett v. Bemis†	672 A.2d 82	95
1995	Bischoff v. Board of Trustees†	661 A.2d 167	92
1996	Binette v. Dyer Library Ass'n†	688 A.2d 898	89
2000	Sproul v. Town of Boothbay Harbor†	2000 ME 30	86
1996	Gibson v. Farm Family Mutual Insurance†	673 A.2d 1350	81
1993	Wayne v. Farm Family Mutual Insurance†	628 A.2d 644	79
1996	Halfway House, Inc. v. City of Portland†	670 A.2d 1377	78
2001	Charlton v. Town of Oxford	2001 ME 104	72
1999	Maine Energy Recovery Co. v. United Steel Structures, Inc.†	1999 ME 31	72
1998	Johnson v. Exclusive Properties Unlimited†	1998 ME 244	69
1995	State v. Savard†	659 A.2d 1265	69
1999	Striefel v. Charles-Keyt-Leaman Partnership†	733 A.2d 984	67
1996	Colquhoun v. Webber†	684 A.2d 405	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 357 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 Paul L. Rudman on?: Paul L. Rudman was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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13 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).