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 1955 / Served to 1956

Percy T. Clarke

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Percy T. Clarke was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1957
Tenure: 1955–1956

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Clarke authored 4 published opinions for the court (1955–1956). Most cited: State v. Allen (16 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. 4 of these were attributed to Clarke 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
1956	State v. Allen†	121 A.2d 342	16
1956	State v. Gagnon†	121 A.2d 345	3
1956	State v. Edgecomb†	151 Me. 368	1
1955	Browne v. Wood†	151 Me. 312	0

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 Percy T. Clarke on?: Percy T. Clarke was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1955. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).