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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1999 / Served to 2009

William J. Sullivan

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

William J. Sullivan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1999–2009 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 292 published opinions for the court (1936–2010), plus 7 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Sherwood v. Danbury Hospital (258 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. 146 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
2000	Sherwood v. Danbury Hospital†	252 Conn. 193	258
2000	Doe v. Yale University· Concurrence†	252 Conn. 641	223
2001	QSP, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.†	256 Conn. 343	206
2002	Perodeau v. City of Hartford· Concurrence†	259 Conn. 729	184
2005	State v. Padua†	273 Conn. 138	162
2004	State v. Peeler	857 A.2d 808	157
2005	State v. Ledbetter	881 A.2d 290	145
2000	Burnham v. Karl & Gelb, P.C.†	252 Conn. 153	129
2003	State v. Rizzo· Concurrence†	266 Conn. 171	127
2000	Eskin v. Castiglia†	253 Conn. 516	127
2006	State v. Fagan	905 A.2d 1101	122
2002	Craine v. Trinity College†	259 Conn. 625	118
2006	State v. Pierre	890 A.2d 474	116
2003	Fort Trumbull Conservancy, LLC v. Alves†	262 Conn. 480	110
2006	Ajadi v. Commissioner of Correction	911 A.2d 712	103

Showing the 15 most-cited of 312 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 J. Sullivan on?: William J. Sullivan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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10 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).