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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1984

John Speziale

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

John Speziale was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2005
Tenure: 1977–1984 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Duke University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Speziale authored 284 published opinions for the court (1977–1984), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Burns v. Hartford Hospital (507 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. 52 of these were attributed to Speziale 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
1984	Burns v. Hartford Hospital†	192 Conn. 451	507
1983	Standard Tallow Corp. v. Jowdy†	190 Conn. 48	447
1983	State v. Curcio	191 Conn. 27	442
1983	Upson v. State	190 Conn. 622	415
1984	Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc.†	193 Conn. 313	400
1982	Breen v. Phelps	186 Conn. 86	350
1983	In re Juvenile Appeal (83-CD)†	189 Conn. 276	307
1982	Telesco v. Telesco	187 Conn. 715	229
1982	Cavallo v. Derby Savings Bank	188 Conn. 281	228
1983	State v. Stepney	191 Conn. 233	222
1982	Alaimo v. Royer	188 Conn. 36	198
1982	State v. Kurvin	186 Conn. 555	191
1982	Gauvin v. City of New Haven	187 Conn. 180	184
1984	Sportsmen's Boating Corp. v. Hensley†	192 Conn. 747	165
1982	State v. Nardini	187 Conn. 109	161

Showing the 15 most-cited of 290 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 Speziale on?: John Speziale was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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7 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).