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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2003 / Active

Alexandra D. Dipentima

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Alexandra D. Dipentima is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Dipentima authored 612 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Rosato v. Mascardo (61 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. 243 of these were attributed to Dipentima 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
2004	Rosato v. Mascardo†	82 Conn. App. 396	61
2005	Narumanchi v. DeStefano	875 A.2d 71	44
2016	Sanders v. Commissioner of Correction†	153 A.3d 8	39
2007	Sullivan v. Thorndike	934 A.2d 827	39
2016	Kobyluck Bros., LLC v. Planning & Zoning Comm'n of Waterford†	142 A.3d 1236	34
2003	In re Victoria B.†	79 Conn. App. 245	33
2007	American Diamond Exchange, Inc. v. Alpert	920 A.2d 357	32
2007	Angiolillo v. Buckmiller	927 A.2d 312	29
2006	Vargas v. Doe†	96 Conn. App. 399	29
2009	State v. Koslik	977 A.2d 275	28
2011	Cohen v. ROLL-A-COVER, LLC	27 A.3d 1	27
2010	State v. Elson	9 A.3d 731	26
2011	Vazquez v. Commissioner of Correction	17 A.3d 1089	25
2005	Lawton v. Weiner	882 A.2d 151	25
2011	Rafalko v. University of New Haven	19 A.3d 215	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 618 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 is Alexandra D. Dipentima on?: Alexandra D. Dipentima is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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23 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).