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 2004 / Active

William Robinson

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

William Robinson is a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Robinson authored 264 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 22 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Grady v. Narragansett Electric Co. (94 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. 295 of these were attributed to Robinson 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
2009	Grady v. Narragansett Electric Co.†	962 A.2d 34	94
2008	Estate of Giuliano v. Giuliano†	949 A.2d 386	86
2009	State v. Clark· Concurrence†	974 A.2d 558	75
2005	State v. Santos	870 A.2d 1029	71
2011	DeMarco v. Travelers Insurance Co.†	26 A.3d 585	69
2008	State v. Texieira†	944 A.2d 132	65
2008	Palazzo v. Alves†	944 A.2d 144	65
2008	Ryan v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence†	941 A.2d 174	63
2005	Gorman v. Gorman	883 A.2d 732	62
2007	State v. Imbruglia	913 A.2d 1022	58
2007	State v. Day†	925 A.2d 962	57
2005	Pollard v. Acer Group	870 A.2d 429	51
2009	Planned Environments Management Corp. v. Robert†	966 A.2d 117	49
2008	North Providence School Committee v. North Providence Federation of Teachers, Local 920†	945 A.2d 339	49
2005	State v. Mohapatra· Concurrence†	880 A.2d 802	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 310 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 is William Robinson on?: William Robinson is a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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22 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).