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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Vermont Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1984

Wynn Underwood

Justice, Vermont Supreme Court

Wynn Underwood was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2005
Tenure: 1981–1984 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Vermont Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Underwood authored 120 published opinions for the court (1981–1984), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Lent v. Huntoon (82 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. 130 of these were attributed to Underwood 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
1983	Lent v. Huntoon†	470 A.2d 1162	82
1983	Soucy v. Soucy Motors, Inc.†	471 A.2d 224	66
1982	Levinsky v. Diamond†	442 A.2d 1277	61
1981	State v. Patnaude†	438 A.2d 402	58
1982	In Re Grievance of Muzzy†	449 A.2d 970	42
1981	State v. Sidway†	431 A.2d 1237	39
1984	Lemnah v. American Breeders Service, Inc.†	482 A.2d 700	38
1981	In re J. S.†	140 Vt. 458	37
1984	In Re Dunham†	479 A.2d 144	34
1982	Duke v. Duke†	442 A.2d 460	33
1984	King v. Snide†	479 A.2d 752	32
1984	Berisha v. Hardy· Dissent†	474 A.2d 90	32
1982	In re G. F.†	142 Vt. 273	31
1984	State v. Lund†	475 A.2d 1055	30
1984	State v. Rice†	483 A.2d 248	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 130 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 Wynn Underwood on?: Wynn Underwood was a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).