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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1952 / Served to 1953

Stephen S. Cushing

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Stephen S. Cushing was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1957
Tenure: 1952–1953 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Norwich University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cushing authored 9 published opinions for the court (1952–1953). Most cited: Appeal of Maurice (17 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. 9 of these were attributed to Cushing 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
1952	Appeal of Maurice†	90 A.2d 440	17
1952	Cole v. Cole†	91 A.2d 819	13
1953	Green Mountain Mushroom Co. v. Brown†	95 A.2d 679	10
1952	In Re Establishment of Water Levels†	91 A.2d 813	9
1953	State v. Hilliker†	97 A.2d 119	8
1953	Benoit v. Wing†	94 A.2d 237	8
1952	Fuller v. Watkins†	90 A.2d 444	8
1952	Brown v. Sutkowski†	91 A.2d 556	7
1953	State v. Sundberg†	117 Vt. 481	0

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Stephen S. Cushing on?: Stephen S. Cushing was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

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1 year 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).