How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1995 / Served to 2014

Richard E. Galway

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Richard E. Galway was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2014 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Galway authored 150 published opinions for the court (2004–2009), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In re Birmingham (118 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. 89 of these were attributed to Galway 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
2006	In re Birmingham†	154 N.H. 51	118
2005	Kelleher v. Marvin Lumber & Cedar Co.†	152 N.H. 813	77
2007	ACAS Acquisitions (Precitech) Inc. v. Hobert	923 A.2d 1076	42
2006	State v. Ayer	917 A.2d 214	40
2007	State v. Lopez	937 A.2d 905	37
2008	State v. Sideris	951 A.2d 164	29
2005	King v. Onthank†	152 N.H. 16	29
2006	Desclos v. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center†	153 N.H. 607	27
2008	State v. Panarello	949 A.2d 732	26
2008	Coffey’s Case· Dissent†	949 A.2d 102	26
2007	Dent v. Exeter Hospital, Inc.	931 A.2d 1203	26
2005	State v. Ainsworth†	151 N.H. 691	26
2005	State v. Sweeney†	151 N.H. 666	25
2006	Akins v. Secretary of State†	154 N.H. 67	23
2005	Carlisle v. Frisbie Memorial Hospital†	152 N.H. 762	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Richard E. Galway on?: Richard E. Galway was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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