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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1985 / Served to 1999

Robert J. Callahan

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Robert J. Callahan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–2013
Tenure: 1985–1999 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston College
Fordham University

Judicial Record

In our data, Callahan authored 358 published opinions for the court (1985–1999), plus 35 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Golding (2,736 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. 406 of these were attributed to Callahan 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
1989	State v. Golding†	213 Conn. 233	2,736
1997	Faulkner v. United Technologies Corp.†	240 Conn. 576	812
1994	RK Constructors, Inc. v. Fusco Corp.†	231 Conn. 381	673
1988	Nolan v. Borkowski· Dissent†	206 Conn. 495	627
1994	Simms v. Warden, State Prison· Concurrence†	230 Conn. 608	582
1986	Petyan v. Ellis†	200 Conn. 243	552
1988	Rowe v. Godou†	209 Conn. 273	465
1988	Dubay v. Irish†	207 Conn. 518	407
1987	American Universal Insurance v. DelGreco†	205 Conn. 178	364
1998	Maffucci v. Royal Park Ltd. Partnership†	243 Conn. 552	360
1986	Catz v. Rubenstein†	201 Conn. 39	354
1995	Copas v. Commissioner of Correction· Dissent†	234 Conn. 139	345
1990	A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc.†	216 Conn. 200	305
1993	Jackson v. R. G. Whipple, Inc.†	225 Conn. 705	274
1991	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Jones†	220 Conn. 285	257

Showing the 15 most-cited of 406 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 Robert J. Callahan on?: Robert J. Callahan 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).