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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1963 / Served to 1968

Bernard A. Kosicki

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Bernard A. Kosicki was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1901 · age 125
Tenure: 1963–1968 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kosicki authored 101 published opinions for the court (1961–1968), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. DeJoseph (25 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. 92 of these were attributed to Kosicki 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
1966	State v. DeJoseph†	3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 624	25
1961	State v. Munroe	171 A.2d 419	23
1963	Duffy v. Woodcrest Builders, Inc.†	2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 137	16
1963	State v. Krozel· Dissent	190 A.2d 61	15
1967	Chamberlain v. Bob Matick Chevrolet, Inc.†	4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 685	14
1967	State v. Harris†	4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 534	14
1964	State v. Gullette†	3 Conn. Cir. Ct. 153	14
1963	State v. Marzbanian†	2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 312	13
1966	State v. Hanusiak†	4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 34	12
1964	Basney v. Klema†	2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 538	12
1963	State v. Boyer†	2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 288	12
1967	State v. Baltromitis†	5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 72	11
1963	State v. Davis†	2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 257	11
1967	Sonnichsen v. Streeter†	4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 659	10
1967	General Consolidated, Ltd. v. Rudnick & Sons, Inc.†	4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 581	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 Bernard A. Kosicki on?: Bernard A. Kosicki was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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5 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).