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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1963

Raymond Early Baldwin

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Raymond Early Baldwin was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1986
Tenure: 1949–1963 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wesleyan University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Baldwin authored 700 published opinions for the court (1893–1963), plus 23 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co. (311 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. 60 of these were attributed to Baldwin 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
1960	Secondino v. New Haven Gas Co.	147 Conn. 672	311
1957	Pierce v. Albanese†	144 Conn. 241	151
1959	Strazza v. McKittrick	146 Conn. 714	116
1954	Jennings v. Connecticut Light & Power Co.†	140 Conn. 650	114
1959	State v. Pundy	147 Conn. 7	107
1960	Casalo v. Claro	147 Conn. 625	106
1962	Summ v. Zoning Commission	150 Conn. 79	105
1961	Mayron's Bake Shops, Inc. v. Arrow Stores, Inc.	149 Conn. 149	103
1963	State v. Dennis	150 Conn. 245	101
1951	Whitman Hotel Corporation v. Elliott & Watrous Engineering Co.· Concurrence†	137 Conn. 562	101
1963	Town & Country House & Homes Service, Inc. v. Evans	150 Conn. 314	99
1962	Kohlfuss v. Warden of Connecticut State Prison	149 Conn. 692	96
1963	State v. Hanna	150 Conn. 457	93
1962	Smith v. Smith	150 Conn. 15	93
1955	Charles Parker Co. v. Silver City Crystal Co.	142 Conn. 605	93

Showing the 15 most-cited of 728 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 Raymond Early Baldwin on?: Raymond Early Baldwin was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).