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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 2007

David M. Borden

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

David M. Borden was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1990–2007 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Amherst College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Borden authored 373 published opinions for the court (1982–2007), plus 12 dissents and 59 concurrences. Most cited: Gurliacci v. Mayer (1,138 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. 399 of these were attributed to Borden 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
1991	Gurliacci v. Mayer†	218 Conn. 531	1,138
1994	Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp.· Concurrence†	229 Conn. 99	817
1998	Pamela B. v. Ment· Concurrence†	244 Conn. 296	501
1994	Simms v. Warden· Concurrence†	229 Conn. 178	407
1995	Williams Ford, Inc. v. Hartford Courant Co.†	232 Conn. 559	355
2001	Gazo v. City of Stamford†	255 Conn. 245	339
1995	Barrett v. Danbury Hospital†	232 Conn. 242	288
1992	Cheshire Mortgage Service, Inc. v. Montes†	223 Conn. 80	281
1992	Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction†	222 Conn. 444	271
1997	Connecticut v. Porter†	241 Conn. 57	268
1992	In re Valerie D.†	223 Conn. 492	261
1991	Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Department of Public Utility Control†	219 Conn. 51	238
1997	Haynes v. Yale-New Haven Hospital†	243 Conn. 17	235
2004	State v. Colon· Concurrence†	272 Conn. 106	228
2004	State v. Stevenson†	269 Conn. 563	228

Showing the 15 most-cited of 444 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 David M. Borden on?: David M. Borden was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).