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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1986

Anthony J. Armentano

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Anthony J. Armentano was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1987
Tenure: 1981–1986 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Armentano authored 26 published opinions for the court (1981–1982), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc. (227 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. 9 of these were attributed to Armentano 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
1982	Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc.	186 Conn. 370	227
1981	In re Juvenile Appeal†	183 Conn. 11	200
1981	Bic Pen Corporation v. Local No. 134	183 Conn. 579	120
1982	State v. Miller	186 Conn. 654	101
1981	State v. Packard	184 Conn. 258	84
1981	Caldor, Inc. v. Heffernan	183 Conn. 566	83
1982	McPhee v. McPhee	186 Conn. 167	76
1982	Hall v. Hall	186 Conn. 118	72
1982	Dubicki v. Dubicki	186 Conn. 709	66
1981	Kiniry v. Danbury Hospital· Dissent†	183 Conn. 448	63
1981	Tomczuk v. Alvarez	184 Conn. 182	61
1981	State v. Perez	183 Conn. 225	49
1982	State v. Howard†	187 Conn. 681	47
1981	Rodriguez v. City of New Haven	183 Conn. 473	45
1981	Swenson v. Dittner	183 Conn. 289	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Anthony J. Armentano on?: Anthony J. Armentano 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).