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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1966 / Served to 1976

Randolph A. Weatherbee

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Randolph A. Weatherbee was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1976
Tenure: 1966–1976 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bates College
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Weatherbee authored 188 published opinions for the court (1967–1976), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: City of Biddeford Ex Rel. Board of Education v. Biddeford Teachers Ass'n (67 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. 190 of these were attributed to Weatherbee 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
1973	City of Biddeford Ex Rel. Board of Education v. Biddeford Teachers Ass'n†	304 A.2d 387	67
1971	Packard v. Whitten†	274 A.2d 169	59
1974	Shapiro Bros. Shoe Co. v. Lewiston-Auburn Shoeworkers Protective Ass'n†	320 A.2d 247	56
1973	State v. McKeough†	300 A.2d 755	53
1973	In Re Spring Valley Development†	300 A.2d 736	52
1975	Williams v. Ford Motor Company†	342 A.2d 712	49
1973	Forbes v. Wells Beach Casino, Inc.†	307 A.2d 210	48
1976	Tallwood Land & Development Co. v. Botka†	352 A.2d 753	47
1967	State v. Warner†	237 A.2d 150	47
1976	Interstate Industrial Uniform Rental Service, Inc. v. Couri Pontiac, Inc.†	355 A.2d 913	45
1976	Lewiston Firefighters Ass'n, Local 785 v. City of Lewiston†	354 A.2d 154	45
1976	State v. McDonough†	350 A.2d 556	43
1976	State v. Inman†	350 A.2d 582	43
1971	Chase v. Kearns†	278 A.2d 132	42
1974	State v. Northup†	318 A.2d 489	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 191 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 Randolph A. Weatherbee on?: Randolph A. Weatherbee was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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9 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).