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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1958 / Served to 1974

Percival L. Shangraw

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Percival L. Shangraw was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1988
Tenure: 1958–1974 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Albany Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Shangraw authored 216 published opinions for the court (1958–1974), plus 14 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Preseault (55 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. 231 of these were attributed to Shangraw 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
1972	In Re Preseault†	292 A.2d 832	55
1966	LaFaso v. LaFaso†	223 A.2d 814	41
1963	Grow v. Wolcott· Dissent†	194 A.2d 403	38
1970	Dewitt v. Town of Brattleboro Zoning Board of Adjustment†	128 Vt. 313	37
1969	State v. Bishop†	260 A.2d 393	37
1973	Laird Properties New England Land Syndicate v. Mad River Corp.†	305 A.2d 562	34
1966	Woodard v. Porter Hospital, Inc.†	217 A.2d 37	33
1964	American Fidelity Co. v. North British & Mercantile Insurance· Concurrence†	204 A.2d 110	32
1962	Morrisseau v. Legac†	181 A.2d 53	32
1967	State v. Ovitt†	229 A.2d 237	31
1966	State v. Barr†	223 A.2d 462	31
1968	State v. Ballou†	238 A.2d 658	29
1965	State v. Ciocca†	209 A.2d 507	29
1965	Woodard v. Porter Hospital, Inc.†	214 A.2d 67	28
1966	Herbert v. Layman†	218 A.2d 706	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 234 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 Percival L. Shangraw on?: Percival L. Shangraw was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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16 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).