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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2009 / Active

Bethany J. Alvord

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Bethany J. Alvord is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Colgate University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Alvord authored 235 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Burns v. Quinnipiac University (42 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. 175 of these were attributed to Alvord 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
2010	Burns v. Quinnipiac University	991 A.2d 666	42
2010	Diaz v. Commissioner of Correction	6 A.3d 213	37
2009	State v. Koslik· Concurrence†	977 A.2d 275	28
2012	Grasso v. Connecticut Hospice, Inc.†	138 Conn. App. 759	23
2010	Metcoff v. Lebovics	2 A.3d 942	20
2017	State v. Williams†	162 A.3d 84	16
2017	State v. Burgos†	155 A.3d 246	15
2012	State v. Pond†	138 Conn. App. 228	15
2011	State v. SHAKIR	22 A.3d 1285	15
2010	In Re Sole S.	986 A.2d 351	15
2018	Humble v. Commissioner of Correction†	184 A.3d 804	14
2016	In re Adelina A.†	148 A.3d 621	14
2018	State v. Montanez†	197 A.3d 959	13
2017	Peeler v. Commissioner of Correction†	155 A.3d 772	13
2016	State v. Elias V.†	147 A.3d 1102	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 246 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 is Bethany J. Alvord on?: Bethany J. Alvord is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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17 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).