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 1990 / Served to 2000

Sherman D. Horton Jr.

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Sherman D. Horton Jr. was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1990–2000 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Horton authored 283 published opinions for the court (1990–2012), plus 44 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Marquay v. Eno (151 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. 332 of these were attributed to Horton 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
1995	Marquay v. Eno†	139 N.H. 708	151
1993	Walls v. Oxford Management Co.†	137 N.H. 653	94
1994	Simpson v. Calivas†	139 N.H. 1	87
1996	Barrows v. Boles†	141 N.H. 382	78
1993	ERG, Inc. v. Barnes· Concurrence†	137 N.H. 186	76
1997	Claremont School District v. Governor· Dissent†	142 N.H. 462	71
1992	Thompson v. Forest†	136 N.H. 215	71
2000	Snierson v. Scruton†	145 N.H. 73	70
1992	Short v. School Administrative Unit No. 16†	136 N.H. 76	68
1993	In re Grimm†	138 N.H. 42	56
1995	Wenners v. Great State Beverages, Inc.†	140 N.H. 100	54
1993	Butler v. Walker Power, Inc.†	137 N.H. 432	50
1995	State v. Bassett· Dissent†	139 N.H. 493	44
1999	State v. Ford†	144 N.H. 57	43
1994	State v. Carroll†	138 N.H. 687	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 333 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 Sherman D. Horton Jr. on?: Sherman D. Horton Jr. was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).