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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 2013 / Active

Andrew J. McDonald

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Andrew J. McDonald is a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McDonald authored 45 published opinions for the court (2016–2019), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Baccala (185 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. 49 of these were attributed to McDonald 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
2017	State v. Baccala†	163 A.3d 1	185
2018	Doe v. Town of W. Hartford†	177 A.3d 1128	36
2017	State v. Bennett†	155 A.3d 188	35
2017	Perez v. Commissioner of Correction†	163 A.3d 597	33
2019	State v. Purcell†	203 A.3d 542	31
2017	Breton v. Commissioner of Correction†	159 A.3d 1112	29
2016	Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Proctor†	152 A.3d 470	27
2016	State v. Connor†	138 A.3d 265	26
2019	U.S. Bank National Assn. v. Blowers†	212 A.3d 226	25
2017	Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. v. Pasiak†	173 A.3d 888	25
2016	State v. Edmonds†	145 A.3d 861	25
2019	Essex Ins. Co. v. William Kramer & Associates, LLC†	205 A.3d 534	23
2016	Bifolck v. Philip Morris, Inc.†	152 A.3d 1183	22
2018	Meribear Prods., Inc. v. Frank†	183 A.3d 1164	21
2018	In re Egypt E.· Dissent†	175 A.3d 21	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Andrew J. McDonald on?: Andrew J. McDonald is a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 years on the Connecticut Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).