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 1967 / Served to 1976

Robert Frederick Griffith

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Robert Frederick Griffith was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1993
Tenure: 1967–1976 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of New Haven
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffith authored 236 published opinions for the court (1967–1976), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Ouellette v. Blanchard (99 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. 60 of these were attributed to Griffith 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
1976	Ouellette v. Blanchard	116 N.H. 552	99
1969	Buttrick v. Arthur Lessard & Sons, Inc.	110 N.H. 36	76
1971	Dumas v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	111 N.H. 43	58
1970	Hackman v. American Mutual Liability Insurance	110 N.H. 87	39
1972	State v. Larochelle	112 N.H. 392	35
1975	Sibson v. State	115 N.H. 124	34
1976	Soule v. Stuyvesant Insurance	116 N.H. 595	31
1973	Menge v. City of Manchester	113 N.H. 533	31
1968	Sanderson v. Balfour	109 N.H. 213	30
1973	Roberts v. Richard & Sons, Inc.	113 N.H. 154	27
1973	State v. Bowles	113 N.H. 571	26
1970	Comer v. Comer	110 N.H. 505	25
1969	Hayes v. State	109 N.H. 353	25
1972	State v. Millette	112 N.H. 458	24
1974	Doe v. State	114 N.H. 714	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 240 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 Robert Frederick Griffith on?: Robert Frederick Griffith was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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9 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).