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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 1995

Albert W. Cretella Jr.

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Albert W. Cretella Jr. was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2009
Tenure: 1990–1995 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Cretella authored 44 published opinions for the court (1990–2008), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: DiBonaventura v. Zoning Board of Appeals (124 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. 45 of these were attributed to Cretella 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
1991	DiBonaventura v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	24 Conn. App. 369	124
1990	Conti v. Murphy†	23 Conn. App. 174	59
1994	Third Taxing District v. Lyons†	35 Conn. App. 795	56
1990	Baron v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	22 Conn. App. 255	55
1993	State v. Rios†	30 Conn. App. 712	53
1991	Skibeck v. Avon†	24 Conn. App. 239	42
1990	Dorsey v. Mancuso†	23 Conn. App. 629	41
1994	Farrell v. Farrell†	36 Conn. App. 305	35
1992	Amore v. Frankel†	29 Conn. App. 565	29
1991	Homart Development Co. v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	26 Conn. App. 212	29
1993	Koepke v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	30 Conn. App. 395	28
1991	State v. Bethea†	24 Conn. App. 13	26
1992	State v. Johnson†	29 Conn. App. 584	23
1994	State v. Cardany†	35 Conn. App. 728	18
1993	Thoma v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	31 Conn. App. 643	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 Appellate Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Albert W. Cretella Jr. on?: Albert W. Cretella Jr. was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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5 years on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).