Connecticut Constitution Art. 5, § 2. Selection, nomination, appointment and removal of judges.  Judicial selection commission

Sec. 2. [As amended] Judges of all courts, except those courts to which judges are elected, shall be nominated by the governor exclusively from candidates submitted by the judicial selection commission.  The commission shall seek and recommend qualified candidates in such numbers as shall by law be prescribed.  Judges so nominated shall be appointed by the general assembly in such manner as shall by law be prescribed.  They shall hold their offices for the term of eight years, but may be removed by impeachment.  The governor shall also remove them on the address of two-thirds of each house of the general assembly and the supreme court may also remove them as is provided by law.