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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 2010 / Former Justice

Dennis G. Eveleigh

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Dennis G. Eveleigh was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Eveleigh authored 116 published opinions for the court (2010–2018), plus 15 dissents and 3 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. 58 of these were attributed to Eveleigh 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†	301 Conn. 575	83
2011	RMS Residential Properties, LLC v. Miller†	303 Conn. 224	40
2011	McCoy v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	12 A.3d 948	39
2017	State v. Edwards†	156 A.3d 506	38
2018	Lucenti v. Laviero· Dissent†	176 A.3d 1	35
2012	State v. Lewis· Concurrence†	36 A.3d 670	34
2011	State v. Coccomo· Dissent†	31 A.3d 1012	33
2017	Taylor v. Commissioner of Correction†	153 A.3d 1264	32
2017	CCT Communications, Inc. v. Zone Telecom, Inc.†	172 A.3d 1228	30
2011	State v. Gonzalez	25 A.3d 648	30
2011	Gould v. Commissioner of Correction†	301 Conn. 544	30
2016	Strycharz v. Cady· Dissent†	148 A.3d 1011	29
2011	Housatonic Railroad v. Commissioner of Revenue Services· Dissent†	21 A.3d 759	29
2016	Gonzalez v. O. & G. Industries, Inc.· Dissent†	140 A.3d 950	27
2011	Dougan v. Dougan†	21 A.3d 791	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 Dennis G. Eveleigh on?: Dennis G. Eveleigh was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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15 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).