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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2000 / Served to 2006

Anne C. Dranginis

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Anne C. Dranginis was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2006 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Manhattanville College

Judicial Record

In our data, Dranginis authored 194 published opinions for the court (2001–2006), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: McCann Real Equities Series XXII, LLC v. David McDermott Chevrolet, Inc. (58 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. 166 of these were attributed to Dranginis 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
2006	McCann Real Equities Series XXII, LLC v. David McDermott Chevrolet, Inc.†	93 Conn. App. 486	58
2002	Berglass v. Berglass†	71 Conn. App. 771	42
2001	In re Amneris P.†	66 Conn. App. 377	40
2001	Prial v. Prial†	67 Conn. App. 7	39
2001	State v. Silva†	65 Conn. App. 234	39
2004	State v. Browne	854 A.2d 13	36
2002	Cadle Co. v. Errato†	71 Conn. App. 447	32
2005	State v. Anderson†	86 Conn. App. 854	31
2001	Pinchbeck v. Department of Public Health†	65 Conn. App. 201	29
2006	State v. Schiavo	888 A.2d 1115	26
2004	State v. Gordon†	84 Conn. App. 519	26
2003	State v. Arluk†	75 Conn. App. 181	26
2001	In re Alexander C.†	67 Conn. App. 417	25
2004	State v. Calderon†	82 Conn. App. 315	24
2003	Dubreuil v. Witt†	80 Conn. App. 410	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 200 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 Anne C. Dranginis on?: Anne C. Dranginis was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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6 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).