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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1966 / Served to 1972

John R. Thim

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

John R. Thim was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1966–1972 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Thim authored 44 published opinions for the court (1966–1972), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Bossert Corp. v. City of Norwalk (219 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. 25 of these were attributed to Thim 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
1968	Bossert Corp. v. City of Norwalk†	157 Conn. 279	219
1971	Hartford Electric Light Co. v. Water Resources Commission	162 Conn. 89	122
1971	Providence Electric Co. v. Sutton Place, Inc.†	161 Conn. 242	101
1970	State v. Vennard	159 Conn. 385	85
1970	Kostiuk v. Queally†	159 Conn. 91	76
1970	Brill v. Ulrey	159 Conn. 371	73
1970	State v. Menillo· Concurrence†	159 Conn. 264	66
1967	Stocker v. City of Waterbury	154 Conn. 446	66
1972	State v. Jackson· Dissent†	162 Conn. 440	65
1970	LaBonte v. Federal Mutual Insurance†	159 Conn. 252	59
1968	Terminal Taxi Co. v. Flynn	156 Conn. 313	56
1969	Farina v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	157 Conn. 420	54
1971	Toomey v. Danaher	161 Conn. 204	51
1971	Palmer v. Hartford National Bank & Trust Co.†	160 Conn. 415	42
1968	Hawkes v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission	156 Conn. 207	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 R. Thim on?: John R. Thim was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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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).