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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1992

Alfred V. Covello

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Alfred V. Covello was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1987–1992 · 5 yrs
Education: Harvard 1954

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

A.B.

1954

Judicial Record

In our data, Covello authored 129 published opinions for the court (1987–1992), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Ferryman v. City of Groton (1,094 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. 143 of these were attributed to Covello 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
1989	Ferryman v. City of Groton†	212 Conn. 138	1,094
1992	State v. Geisler· Dissent†	222 Conn. 672	496
1988	Barde v. Board of Trustees†	207 Conn. 59	384
1989	Evon v. Andrews†	211 Conn. 501	367
1990	Connelly v. Housing Authority of New Haven†	213 Conn. 354	193
1989	Malerba v. Cessna Aircraft Co.†	210 Conn. 189	150
1989	Park City Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care†	210 Conn. 697	142
1991	Heigl v. Board of Education†	218 Conn. 1	140
1990	Quinnett v. Newman†	213 Conn. 343	129
1991	Phillips v. Warden· Dissent†	220 Conn. 112	128
1987	Wei Ping Wu v. Town of Fairfield†	204 Conn. 435	125
1989	Levinson v. Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiners· Concurrence†	211 Conn. 508	118
1990	TLC Development, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	215 Conn. 527	107
1992	Morin v. Bell Court Condominium Ass'n†	223 Conn. 323	106
1990	Gillis v. Gillis†	214 Conn. 336	105

Showing the 15 most-cited of 143 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 Alfred V. Covello on?: Alfred V. Covello was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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5 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).