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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1984 / Served to 1987

Joesph F. Dannehy

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Joesph F. Dannehy was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–2003
Tenure: 1984–1987 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Dannehy authored 75 published opinions for the court (1984–1987), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Griffin Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care (272 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. 78 of these were attributed to Dannehy 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
1986	Griffin Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care†	200 Conn. 489	272
1987	Web Press Services Corp. v. New London Motors, Inc.†	203 Conn. 342	230
1987	Smith v. Planning & Zoning Board of Milford†	203 Conn. 317	214
1985	State v. Ellis†	197 Conn. 436	192
1985	State v. Sharpe†	195 Conn. 651	175
1985	Hartford Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Tucker†	196 Conn. 172	154
1986	Buckley v. Muzio†	200 Conn. 1	143
1985	State v. Talton†	197 Conn. 280	140
1985	State v. Rodgers†	198 Conn. 53	113
1986	West Haven Sound Development Corp. v. City of West Haven†	201 Conn. 305	109
1986	State v. Wilson†	199 Conn. 417	99
1985	Hatcho Corp. v. Della Pietra†	195 Conn. 18	96
1986	State v. Shifflett†	199 Conn. 718	95
1987	State v. Bunkley†	202 Conn. 629	94
1985	Board of Education v. AFSCME, Council 4, Local 287†	195 Conn. 266	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 78 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 Joesph F. Dannehy on?: Joesph F. Dannehy was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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3 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).