How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 2004 / Served to 2015

R M. Graham

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

R M. Graham was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court (6 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Graham authored 89 published opinions for the court (2004–2015), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Callahan v. Callahan (59 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. 103 of these were attributed to Graham 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
2014	Callahan v. Callahan· Concurrence†	85 Mass. App. Ct. 369	59
2005	Adoption of Gillian†	63 Mass. App. Ct. 398	48
2012	Adoption of Cadence†	81 Mass. App. Ct. 162	43
2005	Wynne v. Creigle†	63 Mass. App. Ct. 246	28
2005	Commonwealth v. Clark†	65 Mass. App. Ct. 39	25
2006	Commonwealth v. Grissett†	66 Mass. App. Ct. 454	22
2008	Commonwealth v. Dussault†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 542	19
2012	Commonwealth v. Acosta†	81 Mass. App. Ct. 836	18
2006	Wakefield v. Hegarty†	67 Mass. App. Ct. 772	17
2014	Fyffe v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority· Dissent†	86 Mass. App. Ct. 457	16
2014	Care & Protection of Yetta†	84 Mass. App. Ct. 691	15
2007	Commonwealth v. Starkus†	69 Mass. App. Ct. 326	15
2012	Murphy v. Murphy†	82 Mass. App. Ct. 186	14
2010	Commonwealth v. Graham· Dissent†	78 Mass. App. Ct. 127	14
2008	McMann v. McGowan†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 513	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was R M. Graham on?: R M. Graham was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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11 years on the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).