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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

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Robert J. Lynn

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Robert J. Lynn is a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–
2010	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lynn authored 197 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 11 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: John Farrelly v. City of Concord & A (39 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. 225 of these were attributed to Lynn 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
2015	John Farrelly v. City of Concord & A†	168 N.H. 430	39
2011	State v. Guay· Concurrence†	162 N.H. 375	38
2014	Appeal of the Local Government Center, Inc. & a .†	165 N.H. 790	34
2013	Great American Dining, Inc. v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance†	164 N.H. 612	34
2013	State v. Noucas†	165 N.H. 146	33
2015	State of New Hampshire v. Louise E. Pinault†	168 N.H. 28	32
2013	Ojo v. Lorenzo†	164 N.H. 717	32
2015	Mellin v. Northern Security Insurance· Dissent†	167 N.H. 544	30
2013	Audette v. Cummings†	165 N.H. 763	29
2015	Doe v. State†	167 N.H. 382	28
2012	State v. Saunders†	164 N.H. 342	26
2011	State v. Kay†	27 A.3d 749	25
2016	Robert Jesurum v. WBTSCC Limited Partnership & a.†	151 A.3d 949	24
2013	State v. Dor†	165 N.H. 198	24
2011	State v. Marshall†	162 N.H. 657	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 225 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 is Robert J. Lynn on?: Robert J. Lynn is a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).