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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1989

George D. Stoughton

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

George D. Stoughton was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2011
Tenure: 1987–1989 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Trinity College

Judicial Record

In our data, Stoughton authored 103 published opinions for the court (1987–2011), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Bernard v. Gershman (120 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. 84 of these were attributed to Stoughton 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
1989	Bernard v. Gershman†	18 Conn. App. 652	120
1989	Mac's Car City, Inc. v. DeNigris†	18 Conn. App. 525	85
1989	Molic v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	18 Conn. App. 159	84
1989	Christensen v. Bic Corp.†	18 Conn. App. 451	55
1989	Seery v. Yale-New Haven Hospital†	17 Conn. App. 532	52
1989	Miller v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act†	17 Conn. App. 441	34
1988	Patterson v. Szabo Food Service of New York, Inc.†	14 Conn. App. 178	33
1988	State v. Reddick†	15 Conn. App. 342	28
1988	Kronholm v. Kronholm†	16 Conn. App. 124	27
1989	Tufano v. Tufano†	18 Conn. App. 119	23
1988	Pearl v. Nelson†	13 Conn. App. 170	21
1989	Colonial Bank & Trust Co. v. Matoff†	18 Conn. App. 20	20
1988	State v. Anderson†	16 Conn. App. 346	20
1988	Hagist v. Washburn†	16 Conn. App. 83	20
1989	Ruotolo v. Inland Wetlands Agency†	18 Conn. App. 440	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 Appellate Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was George D. Stoughton on?: George D. Stoughton was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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2 years on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).