How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1986 / Former Justice

Randy J. Holland

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Randy J. Holland was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1986 · 40 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Holland authored 856 published opinions for the court (1987–2017), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: VLIW TECHNOLOGY, LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Co. (527 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. 586 of these were attributed to Holland 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
2003	VLIW TECHNOLOGY, LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Co.†	840 A.2d 606	527
2006	In Re General Motors (Hughes) Shareholder Litigation†	897 A.2d 162	469
2006	Stone v. Ritter†	911 A.2d 362	398
1988	Albury v. State†	551 A.2d 53	362
1997	Somerville v. State†	703 A.2d 629	329
1998	Brittingham v. State†	705 A.2d 577	300
1994	Kahn v. Lynch Communication Systems, Inc.†	638 A.2d 1110	299
1990	Spiegel v. Buntrock†	571 A.2d 767	293
1998	Malone v. Brincat†	722 A.2d 5	273
1995	Cinerama, Inc. v. Technicolor, Inc.†	663 A.2d 1156	242
1995	Unitrin, Inc. v. American General Corp.†	651 A.2d 1361	223
2007	North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation, Inc. v. Gheewalla†	930 A.2d 92	207
2009	Clinton v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.†	977 A.2d 892	205
1991	Burkhart v. Davies†	602 A.2d 56	204
1999	M.G. Bancorporation, Inc. v. Le Beau†	737 A.2d 513	201

Showing the 15 most-cited of 864 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 Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Randy J. Holland on?: Randy J. Holland was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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