How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1953

William B. Nulty

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

William B. Nulty was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1953
Tenure: 1949–1953 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College

Judicial Record

In our data, Nulty authored 38 published opinions for the court (1949–1953). Most cited: Reynolds v. W. H. Hinman Co. (22 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. 37 of these were attributed to Nulty 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
1950	Reynolds v. W. H. Hinman Co.†	75 A.2d 802	22
1951	Collins v. Robbins†	84 A.2d 536	16
1951	Flagg v. Davis†	83 A.2d 319	14
1952	State v. Carleton†	92 A.2d 327	13
1952	Dolloff v. Gardiner†	91 A.2d 320	13
1951	State v. Levesque†	81 A.2d 665	12
1950	Berman v. Griggs†	75 A.2d 365	10
1950	Nadeau v. Fogg†	145 Me. 10	10
1951	Semo v. Goudreau†	83 A.2d 209	9
1952	Petition of O'Donnell†	86 A.2d 389	8
1950	Dubie v. Branz†	73 A.2d 217	8
1950	Dubie v. Branz†	146 Me. 455	8
1949	State v. Bellmore†	144 Me. 231	8
1952	Wyman†	147 Me. 237	7
1951	Bolduc v. Therrien†	83 A.2d 126	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 38 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 William B. Nulty on?: William B. Nulty was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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4 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).