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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1946 / Served to 1956

Raymond Fellows

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Raymond Fellows was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1957
Tenure: 1946–1956 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Maine
University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Fellows authored 72 published opinions for the court (1950–1956), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Hume (40 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. 73 of these were attributed to Fellows 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
1951	State v. Hume†	78 A.2d 496	40
1951	Baxter v. Waterville Sewerage District†	79 A.2d 585	39
1956	Dwyer v. State†	120 A.2d 276	37
1952	State v. Casale†	92 A.2d 718	33
1951	State v. Sullivan†	82 A.2d 629	26
1950	Wade v. Warden of State Prison†	73 A.2d 128	26
1956	State v. Dipietrantonio†	122 A.2d 414	25
1955	New England Trust Company v. Sanger†	118 A.2d 760	24
1954	Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Inhabitants of Presque Isle†	107 A.2d 475	24
1951	Hunter v. Totman†	80 A.2d 401	24
1950	Coffin v. Dodge†	76 A.2d 541	24
1956	State v. Arsenault†	124 A.2d 741	22
1955	Cratty v. Samuel Aceto & Co.†	116 A.2d 623	22
1950	Torrey v. Congress Square Hotel Co.†	75 A.2d 451	22
1951	Boyce v. Maine Public Service Co.†	81 A.2d 670	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 73 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 Raymond Fellows on?: Raymond Fellows was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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10 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).