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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1957

Ernest Alexander Inglis

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Ernest Alexander Inglis was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1972
Tenure: 1950–1957 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wesleyan University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Inglis authored 338 published opinions for the court (1942–1957), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Pierce v. Albanese (151 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. 30 of these were attributed to Inglis 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
1957	Pierce v. Albanese	144 Conn. 241	151
1956	Vilcinskas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.	144 Conn. 170	148
1954	Jennings v. Connecticut Light & Power Co.	140 Conn. 650	114
1950	Welk v. Bidwell	136 Conn. 603	112
1957	Handler v. Remington Arms Co.	144 Conn. 316	110
1952	Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. v. Pearson†	139 Conn. 186	109
1954	Ardoline v. Keegan	140 Conn. 552	105
1954	Couch v. Zoning Commission	141 Conn. 349	102
1954	Batter Building Materials Co. v. Kirschner	142 Conn. 1	101
1951	Whitman Hotel Corporation v. Elliott & Watrous Engineering Co.	137 Conn. 562	101
1956	Winslow v. Zoning Board	143 Conn. 381	95
1956	Smedley Co. v. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of Wisconsin	143 Conn. 510	93
1953	Krasnow v. Krasnow· Dissent†	140 Conn. 254	92
1956	Conley v. Board of Education	143 Conn. 488	91
1954	Amsel v. Brooks	141 Conn. 288	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 Ernest Alexander Inglis on?: Ernest Alexander Inglis was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).