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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1953 / Served to 1958

Kenneth Wynne

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Kenneth Wynne was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1971
Tenure: 1953–1958 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wynne authored 93 published opinions for the court (1944–1958), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc. (144 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. 23 of these were attributed to Wynne 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
1957	Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc.	144 Conn. 659	144
1958	Dumond v. Denehy	145 Conn. 88	117
1958	STATE BAR ASSN. v. Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.	145 Conn. 222	107
1958	Hennessey v. Hennessey	145 Conn. 211	74
1957	Guerriero v. Galasso	144 Conn. 600	73
1957	Antonofsky v. Goldberg	144 Conn. 594	63
1958	State v. Walters	145 Conn. 60	62
1956	Wojculewicz v. Cummings· Dissent†	143 Conn. 624	60
1957	Johnson v. Toscano	144 Conn. 582	57
1957	Park Regional Corporation v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission	144 Conn. 677	53
1957	Slagle v. Zoning Board of Appeals	144 Conn. 690	51
1954	Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Kohn Bros. Tobacco Co.†	141 Conn. 539	51
1958	Benson v. Housing Authority	145 Conn. 196	50
1958	Holt v. Wissinger	145 Conn. 106	50
1958	Treat v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission	145 Conn. 136	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 95 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 Kenneth Wynne on?: Kenneth Wynne was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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5 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).