How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1996 / Served to 2004

Robert G. Flanders Jr.

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Robert G. Flanders Jr. was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 1996–2004 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Brown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Flanders authored 160 published opinions for the court (1996–2004), plus 34 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Johnston Ambulatory Surgical Associates, Ltd. v. Nolan (169 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. 122 of these were attributed to Flanders 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
2000	Johnston Ambulatory Surgical Associates, Ltd. v. Nolan· Concurrence†	755 A.2d 799	169
1998	Bourg v. Bristol Boat Co.†	705 A.2d 969	151
2001	Sciacca v. Caruso	769 A.2d 578	138
1998	Restivo v. Lynch· Dissent†	707 A.2d 663	135
2002	Wilkinson v. State Crime Laboratory Commission	788 A.2d 1129	127
1997	Sullivan v. Chafee†	703 A.2d 748	119
1996	Kaya v. Partington· Dissent†	681 A.2d 256	113
2001	Webster v. Perrotta· Dissent†	774 A.2d 68	107
2004	State v. Lynch· Concurrence†	854 A.2d 1022	102
1998	Swerdlick v. Koch	721 A.2d 849	93
1997	Vallinoto v. DiSandro· Dissent†	688 A.2d 830	77
1996	Montecalvo v. Mandarelli	682 A.2d 918	73
1996	Marr Scaffolding Co., Inc. v. Fairground Forms, Inc.	682 A.2d 455	73
2004	Mill Realty Associates v. Crowe· Dissent†	841 A.2d 668	70
1998	Superior Boiler Works, Inc. v. R.J. Sanders, Inc.†	711 A.2d 628	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 226 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Robert G. Flanders Jr. on?: Robert G. Flanders Jr. was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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