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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1972 / Served to 1981

Joseph Bogdanski

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Joseph Bogdanski was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1972. He previously served on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1997
Tenure: 1972–1981 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–
1972	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Colgate University
Colgate University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Bogdanski authored 154 published opinions for the court (1972–1981), plus 51 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Horton v. Meskill (383 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. 121 of these were attributed to Bogdanski 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
1977	Horton v. Meskill· Concurrence†	172 Conn. 615	383
1980	D.H.R. Construction Co. v. Donnelly	180 Conn. 430	365
1981	Burnham v. Administrator	184 Conn. 317	193
1974	A.P. & W. Holding Corp. v. Planning & Zoning Board†	167 Conn. 182	184
1981	Stowe v. Smith	184 Conn. 194	158
1973	First Hartford Realty Corp. v. Plan & Zoning Commission†	165 Conn. 533	150
1980	In re Juvenile Appeal†	181 Conn. 638	148
1981	Yontef v. Yontef	185 Conn. 275	145
1981	Lukas v. City of New Haven	184 Conn. 205	139
1981	Ubysz v. DiPietro	185 Conn. 47	136
1979	Carpenter v. Planning & Zoning Commission· Dissent†	176 Conn. 581	135
1981	McGuinness v. McGuinness	185 Conn. 7	128
1981	Manchester Environmental Coalition v. Stockton	184 Conn. 51	128
1981	Zartolas v. Nisenfeld	184 Conn. 471	123
1974	Nader v. Altermatt· Dissent†	166 Conn. 43	120

Showing the 15 most-cited of 222 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 Joseph Bogdanski on?: Joseph Bogdanski was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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9 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).