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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1992

Robert D. Glass

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Robert D. Glass was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2001
Tenure: 1987–1992 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

North Carolina Central University

Judicial Record

In our data, Glass authored 139 published opinions for the court (1987–1992), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Gurliacci v. Mayer (1,138 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. 149 of these were attributed to Glass 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
1991	Gurliacci v. Mayer· Dissent†	218 Conn. 531	1,138
1991	Bouchard v. People's Bank†	219 Conn. 465	383
1988	Adolphson v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	205 Conn. 703	298
1989	In re Luis C.†	210 Conn. 157	293
1988	Weiss v. Wiederlight†	208 Conn. 525	275
1992	Berry v. Loiseau†	223 Conn. 786	266
1991	Spero v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	217 Conn. 435	237
1992	Grant v. Bassman†	221 Conn. 465	236
1992	State v. Oquendo†	223 Conn. 635	219
1989	Doe v. Manheimer†	212 Conn. 748	190
1991	State v. Barton· Concurrence†	219 Conn. 529	178
1990	Savage v. Aronson· Dissent†	214 Conn. 256	172
1989	State v. Spigarolo†	210 Conn. 359	159
1988	Board of Education v. Freedom of Information Commission†	208 Conn. 442	141
1991	Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. v. Walsh†	218 Conn. 681	136

Showing the 15 most-cited of 149 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 D. Glass on?: Robert D. Glass was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).