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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1950

William Mills Maltbie

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

William Mills Maltbie was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1961
Tenure: 1930–1950 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Maltbie authored 844 published opinions for the court (1919–1950), plus 40 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Webel v. Yale University (189 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. 5 of these were attributed to Maltbie 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
1939	Webel v. Yale University	7 A.2d 215	189
1925	Bushnell v. Bushnell	131 A. 432	181
1941	State v. Hayes	18 A.2d 895	172
1929	Mahoney v. Beatman· Dissent	147 A. 762	145
1949	Jaffe v. State Department of Health	64 A.2d 330	134
1941	Olcott v. Pendleton	22 A.2d 633	127
1942	Beckwith v. Town of Stratford	29 A.2d 775	125
1935	Dean v. Hershowitz	177 A. 262	116
1937	Strain v. Mims	193 A. 754	111
1947	Lyman v. Adorno	52 A.2d 702	108
1941	Orlo v. Connecticut Co.	21 A.2d 402	108
1946	Devaney v. Board of Zoning Appeals	45 A.2d 828	106
1931	Hartley v. Vitiello	154 A. 255	106
1939	Webb v. Ambler	7 A.2d 228	104
1937	National Transportation Co., Inc. v. Toquet	196 A. 344	102

Showing the 15 most-cited of 894 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 Mills Maltbie on?: William Mills Maltbie was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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20 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).