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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1965 / Served to 1978

Charles House

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Charles House was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1996
Tenure: 1965–1978 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, House authored 930 published opinions for the court (1965–1978), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: State v. Evans (917 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. 43 of these were attributed to House 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
1973	State v. Evans	165 Conn. 61	917
1977	Horton v. Meskill	172 Conn. 615	383
1976	Lawrence v. Kozlowski	171 Conn. 705	286
1978	Nowak v. Nowak	175 Conn. 112	234
1975	Michaud v. Gurney	168 Conn. 431	200
1975	Scribner v. O'Brien, Inc.	169 Conn. 389	186
1972	Corey v. Avco-Lycoming Division	163 Conn. 309	186
1972	Spencer v. Good Earth Restaurant Corporation	164 Conn. 194	173
1975	Johnson v. Flammia	169 Conn. 491	163
1973	State v. Moynahan	164 Conn. 560	159
1972	Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	163 Conn. 552	158
1977	Fraser v. Henninger	173 Conn. 52	156
1972	Kellems v. Brown	163 Conn. 478	154
1975	Gentile v. Altermatt	169 Conn. 267	149
1974	Tobey v. Tobey	165 Conn. 742	145

Showing the 15 most-cited of 941 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 Charles House on?: Charles House was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).