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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1975

Louis Shapiro

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Louis Shapiro was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1991
Tenure: 1970–1975 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shapiro authored 35 published opinions for the court (1970–1975). Most cited: Dougherty v. Graham (165 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. 20 of these were attributed to Shapiro 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
1971	Dougherty v. Graham	161 Conn. 248	165
1972	Birgel v. Heintz†	163 Conn. 23	129
1971	Cecio Bros., Inc. v. Feldmann	161 Conn. 265	117
1970	Brauer v. Freccia	159 Conn. 289	100
1973	Balch Pontiac-Buick, Inc. v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles†	165 Conn. 559	82
1974	City of New Haven v. Public Utilities Commission	165 Conn. 687	81
1975	Evening Sentinel v. National Organization for Women†	168 Conn. 26	68
1971	Holt-Lock, Inc. v. Zoning & Planning Commission	161 Conn. 182	61
1975	Shaskan v. Waltham Industries Corp.†	168 Conn. 43	48
1973	Menzies v. Fisher†	165 Conn. 338	43
1972	Hames v. Hames†	163 Conn. 588	41
1971	Loh v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission†	161 Conn. 32	38
1971	Weyls v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	161 Conn. 516	34
1973	Hartford Fire Insurance v. Brown†	164 Conn. 497	31
1974	Windham Community Memorial Hospital v. City of Willimantic	166 Conn. 113	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Louis Shapiro on?: Louis Shapiro 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).