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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1979 / Served to 1990

Arthur H. Healey

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Arthur H. Healey was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2003
Tenure: 1979–1990 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Trinity College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Healey authored 228 published opinions for the court (1978–1990), plus 31 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. (1,640 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. 243 of these were attributed to Healey 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
1985	Mingachos v. CBS, Inc.†	196 Conn. 91	1,640
1988	Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority†	208 Conn. 161	1,206
1990	Hammer v. Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Co.†	214 Conn. 573	719
1980	Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester	181 Conn. 217	694
1987	Huck v. Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency of Greenwich†	203 Conn. 525	468
1988	Castro v. Viera†	207 Conn. 420	397
1988	State v. Goggin†	208 Conn. 606	300
1990	White v. Burns†	213 Conn. 307	270
1987	Marsh, Day & Calhoun v. Solomon†	204 Conn. 639	248
1988	Frito-Lay, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	206 Conn. 554	247
1989	Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.†	212 Conn. 509	232
1983	Sturman v. Socha	191 Conn. 1	231
1987	Cummings v. Tripp†	204 Conn. 67	225
1987	Buckman v. People Express, Inc.†	205 Conn. 166	216
1987	Zichichi v. Middlesex Memorial Hospital†	204 Conn. 399	212

Showing the 15 most-cited of 279 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 was Arthur H. Healey on?: Arthur H. Healey was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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10 years on the Connecticut Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).