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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 2009 / Served to 2012

C. Ian McLachlan

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

C. Ian McLachlan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 2009–2012 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Fordham University

Judicial Record

In our data, McLachlan authored 76 published opinions for the court (2009–2012), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Watts v. Chittenden (83 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. 27 of these were attributed to McLachlan 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
2011	Watts v. Chittenden· Dissent†	301 Conn. 575	83
2010	State v. Lockhart†	298 Conn. 537	68
2010	Weiss v. Weiss†	297 Conn. 446	66
2010	Maturo v. Maturo· Concurrence†	995 A.2d 1	65
2010	Lopa v. Brinker International, Inc.†	296 Conn. 426	55
2011	Luurtsema v. Commissioner of Correction· Concurrence†	12 A.3d 817	52
2011	State v. Brown†	11 A.3d 663	49
2010	Harris v. Bradley Memorial Hospital & Health Center, Inc.	994 A.2d 153	41
2012	State v. Lewis†	36 A.3d 670	34
2011	Harbour Pointe, LLC v. Harbour Landing Condominium Ass'n†	14 A.3d 284	32
2011	Raftopol v. Ramey†	12 A.3d 783	29
2011	ST. PAUL TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC. v. Kuehl	12 A.3d 852	26
2011	Saleh v. Ribeiro Trucking, LLC†	303 Conn. 276	25
2011	Connecticut Podiatric Medical Ass'n v. Health Net of Connecticut, Inc.	28 A.3d 958	25
2009	State v. Faison	967 A.2d 507	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 79 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 C. Ian McLachlan on?: C. Ian McLachlan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).