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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1985 / Served to 1994

Angelo Santaniello

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Angelo Santaniello was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2015
Tenure: 1985–1994 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Santaniello authored 105 published opinions for the court (1985–1994), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wilson v. City of New Haven (603 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. 108 of these were attributed to Santaniello 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	Wilson v. City of New Haven†	213 Conn. 277	603
1986	Daily v. New Britain Machine Co.†	200 Conn. 562	284
1986	State v. Graham†	200 Conn. 9	121
1987	Orenstein v. Old Buckingham Corp.†	205 Conn. 572	108
1986	State v. Kemp†	199 Conn. 473	107
1986	State v. Toste†	198 Conn. 573	99
1985	Maturo v. Gerard†	196 Conn. 584	99
1985	Timm v. Timm†	195 Conn. 202	99
1987	Lambert v. Stovell†	205 Conn. 1	98
1994	State v. Chapman†	229 Conn. 529	94
1993	McNally v. Zoning Commission†	225 Conn. 1	93
1986	State v. Boucino†	199 Conn. 207	92
1988	Malmberg v. Lopez†	208 Conn. 675	90
1985	In re Theresa S.†	196 Conn. 18	87
1985	National CSS, Inc. v. City of Stamford†	195 Conn. 587	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 108 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 Angelo Santaniello on?: Angelo Santaniello was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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8 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).