How do judges of the Vermont Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1976 / Served to 1987

William C. Hill

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

William C. Hill was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–1998
Tenure: 1976–1987 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

New York University
New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 294 published opinions for the court (1977–1987), plus 10 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Badger (152 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. 309 of these were attributed to Hill 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
1982	State v. Badger†	450 A.2d 336	152
1987	State v. Catsam†	534 A.2d 184	108
1981	My Sister's Place v. City of Burlington†	433 A.2d 275	73
1977	In re N. H.†	135 Vt. 230	71
1978	Sheltra v. Smith†	392 A.2d 431	70
1981	State v. Derouchie†	440 A.2d 146	68
1982	In Re Pyramid Co. of Burlington†	449 A.2d 915	66
1986	Payne v. Rozendaal†	520 A.2d 586	64
1979	State v. Kasper†	404 A.2d 85	63
1981	Gore v. Green Mountain Lakes, Inc.†	438 A.2d 373	58
1981	Wilder v. Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance†	433 A.2d 309	58
1987	State v. Tallman†	537 A.2d 422	57
1977	State v. Welch†	376 A.2d 351	56
1985	Peck v. Counseling Service of Addison County, Inc.†	499 A.2d 422	53
1982	Town of Cavendish v. Vermont Public Power Supply Authority†	446 A.2d 792	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 311 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 William C. Hill on?: William C. Hill was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 years 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).