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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1993 / Former Justice

Richard N. Palmer

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Richard N. Palmer was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Trinity College
Trinity College
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Palmer authored 350 published opinions for the court (1993–2019), plus 26 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: Pamela B. v. Ment (501 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. 350 of these were attributed to Palmer 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
1998	Pamela B. v. Ment· Concurrence†	244 Conn. 296	501
1995	Home Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.†	235 Conn. 185	492
2003	State v. Reynolds†	264 Conn. 1	248
2008	State v. Salamon	949 A.2d 1092	243
2011	State v. Kitchens· Concurrence†	10 A.3d 942	242
1999	In re Eden F.†	250 Conn. 674	208
2008	State v. DeJesus· Concurrence†	953 A.2d 45	196
1994	Lees v. Middlesex Insurance†	229 Conn. 842	184
1998	Binette v. Sabo†	244 Conn. 23	161
1996	State v. Troupe†	237 Conn. 284	159
1994	Water & Way Properties v. Colt's Manufacturing Co.†	230 Conn. 660	156
2006	State v. Skakel†	276 Conn. 633	153
2000	Community Action for Greater Middlesex County, Inc. v. American Alliance Insurance†	254 Conn. 387	150
1994	Associated Investment Co. Ltd. Partnership v. Williams Associates IV†	230 Conn. 148	146
1994	Francini v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	228 Conn. 785	133

Showing the 15 most-cited of 417 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 Richard N. Palmer on?: Richard N. Palmer was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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33 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).