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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1999

Antoinette L. Dupont

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Antoinette L. Dupont was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1983–1999 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Brown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dupont authored 532 published opinions for the court (1983–2012), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: In re Migdalia M. (332 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. 474 of these were attributed to Dupont 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
1986	In re Migdalia M.†	6 Conn. App. 194	332
1988	O'Neill v. O'Neill†	13 Conn. App. 300	189
1990	Gaudio v. Gaudio†	23 Conn. App. 287	187
1997	Pion v. Southern New England Telephone Co.†	44 Conn. App. 657	178
1990	Atkinson v. Berloni†	23 Conn. App. 325	154
1984	Kavarco v. T. J. E., Inc.	478 A.2d 257	152
1991	In re Alexander V.†	25 Conn. App. 741	150
1987	Burns v. Koellmer†	11 Conn. App. 375	150
1993	Gulack v. Gulack†	30 Conn. App. 305	149
1987	Miles v. Perry†	11 Conn. App. 584	135
1987	In re Nicolina T.†	9 Conn. App. 598	132
1996	Foley v. Huntington Co.†	42 Conn. App. 712	123
1995	Sanborn v. Greenwald†	39 Conn. App. 289	103
1988	City of Bridgeport v. Barbour-Daniel Electronics, Inc.†	16 Conn. App. 574	101
1988	Mahoney v. Lensink†	17 Conn. App. 130	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 544 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 Antoinette L. Dupont on?: Antoinette L. Dupont was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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16 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).