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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

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Raheem L. Mullins

Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Raheem L. Mullins is a Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, serving since 2017. He previously served on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–
2017	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Clark University
Northeastern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mullins authored 72 published opinions for the court (2016–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. McCoy (25 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. 73 of these were attributed to Mullins 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
2019	State v. McCoy†	206 A.3d 725	25
2017	Bruno v. The Travelers Companies†	161 A.3d 630	25
2019	Meletrich v. Commissioner of Correction†	212 A.3d 678	23
2018	Comm'r of Emergency Servs. & Pub. Prot. v. Freedom of Info. Comm'n†	194 A.3d 759	20
2019	State v. Walker†	212 A.3d 1244	18
2017	State v. Toro†	162 A.3d 63	18
2018	Greene v. Comm'r of Corr.†	190 A.3d 851	15
2017	Procaccini v. Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, Inc.†	168 A.3d 538	14
2017	State v. Megos†	170 A.3d 120	13
2016	State v. Baker†	145 A.3d 955	13
2019	State v. Jacques†	210 A.3d 533	12
2017	State v. Soto†	168 A.3d 605	12
2017	Brian S. v. Commissioner of Correction†	160 A.3d 1110	12
2016	Mourning v. Commissioner of Correction†	150 A.3d 1166	12
2016	In re Carla C.†	143 A.3d 677	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 73 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 is Raheem L. Mullins on?: Raheem L. Mullins is a Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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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).