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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 2009 / Active

Sydney Hanlon

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Sydney Hanlon is a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hanlon authored 63 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hoegen v. Hoegen (39 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. 64 of these were attributed to Hanlon 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
2016	Hoegen v. Hoegen†	89 Mass. App. Ct. 6	39
2011	Finard & Co. v. Sitt Asset Management†	79 Mass. App. Ct. 226	34
2016	Gassman v. Reason†	90 Mass. App. Ct. 1	33
2015	A.T. v. C.R.†	88 Mass. App. Ct. 532	32
2014	Commonwealth v. Martinez†	86 Mass. App. Ct. 545	22
2011	Casey v. Casey†	79 Mass. App. Ct. 623	21
2011	S.T. v. E.M.†	80 Mass. App. Ct. 423	19
2010	Commonwealth v. Blackmer†	77 Mass. App. Ct. 474	18
2017	C.R.S. v. J.M.S.†	89 N.E.3d 1198	16
2013	Commonwealth v. Saulnier†	84 Mass. App. Ct. 603	16
2013	Adoption of Norbert· Dissent†	83 Mass. App. Ct. 542	16
2010	Commonwealth v. Flanagan†	76 Mass. App. Ct. 456	16
2010	Commonwealth v. Aguiar†	78 Mass. App. Ct. 193	12
2010	Loebel v. Loebel†	77 Mass. App. Ct. 740	11
2012	Vita v. Berman, DeValerio & Pease, LLP†	81 Mass. App. Ct. 748	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 is Sydney Hanlon on?: Sydney Hanlon is a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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17 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).