How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1970

Robert B. Williamson

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Robert B. Williamson was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1976
Tenure: 1949–1970 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Williamson authored 265 published opinions for the court (1949–1970), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Park (71 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. 274 of these were attributed to Williamson 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
1963	State v. Park†	193 A.2d 1	71
1957	Central Maine Power Co. v. Public Utilities Commission†	136 A.2d 726	52
1967	State v. Brochu†	237 A.2d 418	50
1962	State v. Mottram†	184 A.2d 225	46
1962	Tantish v. Szendey†	182 A.2d 660	45
1955	Pappas v. Stacey†	116 A.2d 497	45
1961	State v. Fantastic Fair & Karmil Merchandising Corp.†	158 Me. 450	38
1966	Toothaker v. Maine Employment Security Commission†	217 A.2d 203	36
1965	Holbrook Island Sanctuary v. Inhabitants of Brooksville†	214 A.2d 660	36
1954	Crommett v. City of Portland†	107 A.2d 841	36
1949	Jordan v. Mace†	144 Me. 351	31
1963	Pettengill v. Turo	193 A.2d 367	30
1962	State v. Duguay†	178 A.2d 129	29
1960	McGary v. Barrows†	163 A.2d 747	29
1967	Richards v. Ellis†	233 A.2d 37	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 281 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 Robert B. Williamson on?: Robert B. Williamson was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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21 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).