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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1985

Anthony E. Grillo

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Anthony E. Grillo was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1999
Tenure: 1983–1985 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Grillo authored 37 published opinions for the court (1982–1984), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Conaway v. Prestia (255 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. 25 of these were attributed to Grillo 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
1983	Conaway v. Prestia	191 Conn. 484	255
1984	Fetterman v. University of Connecticut†	192 Conn. 539	108
1983	Caldor, Inc. v. Thornton†	191 Conn. 336	94
1983	Schwarzschild v. Martin	191 Conn. 316	90
1984	State v. Eason†	192 Conn. 37	76
1983	J. Frederick Scholes Agency v. Mitchell	191 Conn. 353	76
1983	Jay Realty, Inc. v. Ahearn Development Corporation	189 Conn. 52	75
1984	State v. Perruccio†	192 Conn. 154	74
1983	Venturi v. Savitt, Inc.†	191 Conn. 588	74
1983	Trzcinski v. Richey	190 Conn. 285	63
1983	New Haven Savings Bank v. West Haven Sound Development	190 Conn. 60	61
1983	Franchi v. Farmholme, Inc.· Dissent†	191 Conn. 201	50
1984	Costello v. Hartford Institute of Accounting, Inc.†	193 Conn. 160	49
1984	Hall v. Peacock Fixture & Electric Co.†	193 Conn. 290	42
1984	State v. Killenger†	193 Conn. 48	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 E. Grillo on?: Anthony E. Grillo was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).