How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1993 / Served to 2002

Victoria Lederberg

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Victoria Lederberg was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1937–2002
Tenure: 1993–2002 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Suffolk University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lederberg authored 190 published opinions for the court (1993–2003), plus 7 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc. (300 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. 50 of these were attributed to Lederberg 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
1996	Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc.	674 A.2d 1223	300
1996	Rotelli v. Catanzaro	686 A.2d 91	186
2000	Johnston Ambulatory Surgical Associates, Ltd. v. Nolan	755 A.2d 799	169
2001	Bernuth v. Zoning Board of Review	770 A.2d 396	137
1998	Restivo v. Lynch†	707 A.2d 663	135
1994	Matter of Falstaff Brewing Corp.	637 A.2d 1047	122
1995	City of Pawtucket v. Sundlun	662 A.2d 40	121
1994	Hydro-Manufacturing, Inc. v. Kayser-Roth Corp.	640 A.2d 950	111
1994	Rhode Island Public Telecommunications Authority v. Rhode Island State Labor Relations Board†	650 A.2d 479	101
1994	State v. Banach	648 A.2d 1363	100
1995	Mallane v. Holyoke Mutual Insurance Co. in Salem	658 A.2d 18	85
1998	State v. DiCicco†	707 A.2d 251	84
1999	Skaling v. Aetna Insurance	742 A.2d 282	83
1999	Commercial Union Insurance v. Pelchat†	727 A.2d 676	81
1994	State v. Marini	638 A.2d 507	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 202 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Victoria Lederberg on?: Victoria Lederberg was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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