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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1953

Newell Jennings

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Newell Jennings was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1883 · age 143
Tenure: 1937–1953 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jennings authored 308 published opinions for the court (1925–1953), plus 35 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Norwalk Teachers' Ass'n v. Board of Education (119 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. 35 of these were attributed to Jennings 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
1951	Norwalk Teachers' Ass'n v. Board of Education†	138 Conn. 269	119
1943	Savings Bank of New London v. Santaniello	33 A.2d 126	101
1939	Glotzer v. Keyes· Dissent	5 A.2d 1	86
1942	Town of Winchester v. Cox· Dissent	26 A.2d 592	80
1948	Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Walsh· Dissent	57 A.2d 128	74
1948	Labella v. Labella	57 A.2d 627	69
1940	Wray v. Fairfield Amusement Co.	10 A.2d 600	65
1951	Laube v. Stevenson· Dissent†	137 Conn. 469	64
1948	Baker v. Baningoso	58 A.2d 5	63
1947	Ferino v. Palmer	52 A.2d 433	59
1939	State v. Swift	6 A.2d 359	58
1952	State Ex Rel. Rourke v. Barbieri· Dissent†	139 Conn. 203	56
1946	Kamerman v. Leroy	50 A.2d 175	51
1944	Collins v. City National Bank & Trust Co.	38 A.2d 582	50
1946	Vogel v. Bacus· Dissent	48 A.2d 237	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 346 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 Newell Jennings on?: Newell Jennings was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).