How do judges of the Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1972 / Served to 1980

Rudolph J. Daley

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Rudolph J. Daley was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1990
Tenure: 1972–1980 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Daley authored 207 published opinions for the court (1972–1980), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Wood v. Wood (95 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. 214 of these were attributed to Daley 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
1977	Wood v. Wood· Dissent†	370 A.2d 191	95
1979	Kalakowski v. John A. Russell Corp.†	401 A.2d 906	70
1976	New England Power Company v. Town of Barnet†	367 A.2d 1363	69
1980	Union Bank v. Jones†	411 A.2d 1338	68
1974	Weeks v. Burnor†	326 A.2d 138	64
1980	State of Vermont Department of Taxes v. Tri-State Industrial Laundries, Inc.†	415 A.2d 216	59
1973	Petition of Green Mountain Power Corporation†	305 A.2d 571	59
1973	In re J. M.†	131 Vt. 604	57
1979	State v. Ahearn†	403 A.2d 696	52
1978	State v. Brean†	385 A.2d 1085	50
1973	Town of Westford v. Kilburn†	300 A.2d 523	45
1980	State v. Tierney†	412 A.2d 298	43
1978	State v. Gokey†	383 A.2d 601	39
1974	Andrews v. Lathrop†	315 A.2d 860	38
1972	Largess v. Tatem†	291 A.2d 398	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 214 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 Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Rudolph J. Daley on?: Rudolph J. Daley was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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