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 1991

Treat Clark Hull

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Treat Clark Hull was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. He previously served on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1996
Tenure: 1987–1991 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–
1983	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hull authored 266 published opinions for the court (1983–1991), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Nolan v. Borkowski (627 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. 269 of these were attributed to Hull 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
1988	Nolan v. Borkowski†	206 Conn. 495	627
1988	Mather v. Griffin Hospital†	207 Conn. 125	206
1988	Zapata v. Burns†	207 Conn. 496	195
1989	Aillon v. Meachum†	211 Conn. 352	179
1990	Ford v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc.†	216 Conn. 40	163
1991	Hillman v. Town of Greenwich†	217 Conn. 520	160
1989	Winslow v. Lewis-Shepard, Inc.†	212 Conn. 462	154
1990	Quinnett v. Newman· Dissent†	213 Conn. 343	129
1989	Caltabiano v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	211 Conn. 662	124
1990	Lieberman v. State Board of Labor Relations†	216 Conn. 253	122
1990	Gagnon v. Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Commission of Bristol†	213 Conn. 604	119
1989	Levinson v. Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiners†	211 Conn. 508	118
1986	Couture v. Board of Education†	6 Conn. App. 309	111
1990	State v. Weinberg†	215 Conn. 231	108
1990	State v. Jennings†	216 Conn. 647	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 269 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 Treat Clark Hull on?: Treat Clark Hull was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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3 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).