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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1980 / Served to 1985

Leo Parskey

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Leo Parskey was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1994
Tenure: 1980–1985 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Parskey authored 92 published opinions for the court (1978–1985), plus 6 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Magnan v. Anaconda Industries, Inc. (437 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. 76 of these were attributed to Parskey 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	Magnan v. Anaconda Industries, Inc.· Concurrence†	193 Conn. 558	437
1982	Shore v. Town of Stonington	187 Conn. 147	403
1985	Zizka v. Water Pollution Control Authority†	195 Conn. 682	388
1981	Hinchliffe v. American Motors Corp.†	184 Conn. 607	298
1984	State v. Asherman†	193 Conn. 695	255
1980	Meredith v. Police Commission of the Town of New Canaan†	182 Conn. 138	230
1984	State v. Couture†	194 Conn. 530	199
1982	State v. Kurvin†	186 Conn. 555	191
1983	Heslin v. Connecticut Law Clinic of Trantolo & Trantolo· Concurrence†	190 Conn. 510	174
1984	Three S. Development Co. v. Santore†	193 Conn. 174	164
1984	State v. Esposito†	192 Conn. 166	159
1985	Markey v. Santangelo†	195 Conn. 76	148
1980	In re Juvenile Appeal· Dissent†	181 Conn. 638	148
1980	Kowal v. Hofher	181 Conn. 355	146
1980	Pisel v. Stamford Hospital	180 Conn. 314	143

Showing the 15 most-cited of 106 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 Leo Parskey on?: Leo Parskey was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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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).