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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1998 / Served to 2007

Susan W. Calkins

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Susan W. Calkins was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1998–2007 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder
University of Maine

Judicial Record

In our data, Calkins authored 124 published opinions for the court (1998–2007), plus 13 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Wage Payment Litigation (162 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. 140 of these were attributed to Calkins 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
2000	In Re Wage Payment Litigation· Dissent†	2000 ME 162	162
2005	In re Thomas H.· Dissent†	889 A.2d 297	140
2005	Kroeger v. Department of Environmental Protection†	2005 ME 50	102
2002	Rogers v. Jackson†	2002 ME 140	72
2001	Charlton v. Town of Oxford· Concurrence†	2001 ME 104	72
1999	New Orleans Tanker Corp. v. Department of Transportation†	1999 ME 67	65
2000	Aldus v. State†	2000 ME 47	58
1999	Lewiston Daily Sun v. School Administrative District No. 43· Dissent†	1999 ME 143	57
2006	Cobb v. Board of Counseling Professionals Licensure†	2006 ME 48	51
2001	Town of Burlington v. Hospital Administrative District No. 1†	2001 ME 59	50
2004	Maietta Construction, Inc. v. Wainwright· Dissent†	2004 ME 53	49
1999	Sturtevant v. Town of Winthrop†	1999 ME 84	46
2000	Walter v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.†	2000 ME 63	42
2000	Guilford Transportation Industries v. Public Utilities Commission†	2000 ME 31	39
2003	Ram's Head Partners, LLC v. Town of Cape Elizabeth†	834 A.2d 916	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 142 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Susan W. Calkins on?: Susan W. Calkins was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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