How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 1997 / Served to 2006

Susan S. Beck

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Susan S. Beck was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1997–2006 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Beck authored 81 published opinions for the court (1998–2006), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Golber v. BayBank Valley Trust Co. (64 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. 82 of these were attributed to Beck 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
1999	Golber v. BayBank Valley Trust Co.†	46 Mass. App. Ct. 256	64
2002	Ayasli v. Armstrong†	56 Mass. App. Ct. 740	53
2006	Sullivan v. Southland Life Insurance†	67 Mass. App. Ct. 439	52
1999	Gross v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Inc.†	48 Mass. App. Ct. 115	46
1999	Wooster v. Abdow Corp.†	46 Mass. App. Ct. 665	37
1999	Vaughan v. Eastern Edison Co.†	48 Mass. App. Ct. 225	35
2001	Preston v. Board of Appeals†	51 Mass. App. Ct. 236	26
2006	Commissioner of Probation v. Adams†	65 Mass. App. Ct. 725	25
2002	Commonwealth v. Mock†	54 Mass. App. Ct. 276	24
1999	Green v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.†	47 Mass. App. Ct. 443	23
2000	Williams v. B & K Medical Systems, Inc.†	49 Mass. App. Ct. 563	21
2000	Commonwealth v. Delarosa†	50 Mass. App. Ct. 623	20
1999	Metropolitan Credit Union v. Matthes†	46 Mass. App. Ct. 326	20
1999	Eldim, Inc. v. Mullen†	47 Mass. App. Ct. 125	19
2002	Fern v. Immergut· Dissent†	55 Mass. App. Ct. 577	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 82 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 Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Susan S. Beck on?: Susan S. Beck was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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