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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 2007 / Former Justice

Chase T. Rogers

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Chase T. Rogers was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rogers authored 603 published opinions for the court (2007–2018), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Kitchens (242 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. 36 of these were attributed to Rogers 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	State v. Kitchens	10 A.3d 942	242
2008	State v. DeJesus	953 A.2d 45	196
2012	State v. Payne	34 A.3d 370	144
2008	Small v. Commissioner of Correction	946 A.2d 1203	129
2008	Chapman Lumber, Inc. v. Tager	952 A.2d 1	105
2009	Conboy v. State	974 A.2d 669	100
2008	State v. Smith	960 A.2d 993	99
2009	Town of New Hartford v. Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority	970 A.2d 592	97
2010	Naples v. Keystone Building & Development Corp.	990 A.2d 326	96
2009	Mozell v. Commissioner of Correction	967 A.2d 41	90
2007	State v. Randolph	933 A.2d 1158	88
2010	State v. Courchesne	998 A.2d 1	86
2008	In Re Davonta V.	940 A.2d 733	83
2010	Sturm v. Harb Development, LLC	2 A.3d 859	82
2009	Grady v. Town of Somers	984 A.2d 684	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 609 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 Chase T. Rogers on?: Chase T. Rogers was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).