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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1926 / Served to 1949

Sherman R. Moulton

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Sherman R. Moulton was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1949
Tenure: 1926–1949 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moulton authored 276 published opinions for the court (1925–1949), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Auclair (58 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. 3 of these were attributed to Moulton 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
1939	State v. Auclair	4 A.2d 107	58
1934	Perkins v. Vermont Hydro-Electric Corp.	177 A. 631	58
1938	Houran, Admr. v. Preferred Acc. Ins. Co. of N.Y.	195 A. 253	57
1941	Trybulski v. Bellows Falls Hydro-Electric Corp.	30 A.2d 117	56
1941	Lancour v. Herald & Globe Ass'n	17 A.2d 253	49
1932	State v. Stacy	160 A. 237	47
1928	Leonard v. Willcox	142 A. 762	43
1943	Nelson v. Bacon	32 A.2d 140	41
1933	State v. Storrs	163 A. 560	40
1927	Landry v. Hubert	137 A. 97	40
1931	Murray v. Allen	154 A. 678	38
1928	Cummings v. Connecticut General Life Insurance	142 A. 82	38
1931	Sorrell v. White	153 A. 359	36
1929	Parizo v. Wilson	144 A. 868	34
1937	Shea v. Pilette	189 A. 154	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 283 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 Sherman R. Moulton on?: Sherman R. Moulton was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).