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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1977

William Perry Barber

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

William Perry Barber was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1984
Tenure: 1975–1977 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Clark University

Judicial Record

In our data, Barber authored 7 published opinions for the court (1975–1977). Most cited: Norwich Land Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (99 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. 7 of these were attributed to Barber 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
1975	Norwich Land Co. v. Public Utilities Commission†	170 Conn. 1	99
1976	Dupuis v. Submarine Base Credit Union, Inc.†	170 Conn. 344	96
1977	State v. Carr†	172 Conn. 458	72
1977	Lockwood v. Killian†	172 Conn. 496	43
1976	Parham v. Warden, Bridgeport Community Correctional Center†	172 Conn. 126	30
1976	MacIejewska v. Lombard Bros., Inc.†	171 Conn. 35	18
1975	State ex rel. Commission for Higher Education v. Wethersfield School of Law, Inc.†	169 Conn. 171	3

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 William Perry Barber on?: William Perry Barber was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).