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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 2006 / Served to 2011

William Meade

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

William Meade was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Meade authored 49 published opinions for the court (2007–2025), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: South Street Nominee Trust v. Board of Assessors of Carlisle (179 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. 40 of these were attributed to Meade 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
2007	South Street Nominee Trust v. Board of Assessors of Carlisle†	70 Mass. App. Ct. 853	179
2007	Fisher v. Lint†	69 Mass. App. Ct. 360	54
2010	Commonwealth v. Farnsworth	76 Mass. App. Ct. 87	51
2007	Okerman v. VA Software Corp.†	69 Mass. App. Ct. 771	48
2008	Commonwealth v. Hartnett†	72 Mass. App. Ct. 467	45
2008	Commonwealth v. Duncan†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 150	28
2008	Windross v. Village Automotive Group, Inc.†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 861	25
2010	Commonwealth v. Arias	78 Mass. App. Ct. 429	23
2008	Adoption of Zoltan†	71 Mass. App. Ct. 185	22
2007	Commonwealth v. Keon K.†	70 Mass. App. Ct. 568	17
2008	Fortenbacher v. Commonwealth†	72 Mass. App. Ct. 82	16
2009	Commonwealth v. Watts†	74 Mass. App. Ct. 514	13
2009	Commonwealth v. Oliveira†	74 Mass. App. Ct. 49	13
2007	Commonwealth v. Morris M.†	70 Mass. App. Ct. 688	13
2010	Cooper v. Cooper-Ciccarelli†	77 Mass. App. Ct. 86	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 William Meade on?: William Meade was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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5 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).