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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1970

John Hamilton King

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

John Hamilton King was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1977
Tenure: 1957–1970 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, King authored 634 published opinions for the court (1957–1970), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (723 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 King 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
1969	United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission	158 Conn. 364	723
1965	Kaplan v. Merberg Wrecking Corporation	152 Conn. 405	279
1967	Collens v. New Canaan Water Co.	155 Conn. 477	173
1968	Adams v. Rubinow	157 Conn. 150	156
1969	Bianco v. Town of Darien	157 Conn. 548	147
1969	Sheridan v. Planning Board	159 Conn. 1	144
1969	Panaroni v. Johnson	158 Conn. 92	140
1968	Dorazio v. M. B. Foster Electric Co.	157 Conn. 226	134
1967	Zaist v. Olson	154 Conn. 563	134
1969	Lawrence v. Zoning Board of Appeals	158 Conn. 509	133
1968	Hughes v. Town Planning & Zoning Commission	156 Conn. 505	130
1967	Richard v. A. Waldman & Sons, Inc.	155 Conn. 343	121
1967	Nolan v. Morelli	154 Conn. 432	121
1966	Triangle Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Silver	154 Conn. 116	120
1967	Rossignol v. Danbury School of Aeronautics, Inc.	154 Conn. 549	117

Showing the 15 most-cited of 635 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 John Hamilton King on?: John Hamilton King was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).