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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2003 / Served to 2009

C Ian McLachlan

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

C Ian McLachlan was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2009 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Fordham University

Judicial Record

In our data, McLachlan authored 190 published opinions for the court (2003–2009), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Gagne v. Vaccaro (51 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. 93 of these were attributed to McLachlan 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
2003	Gagne v. Vaccaro†	80 Conn. App. 436	51
2007	Vollemans v. Town of Wallingford· Dissent†	928 A.2d 586	40
2004	State v. Jarrett†	82 Conn. App. 489	38
2004	Egri v. Foisie†	83 Conn. App. 243	36
2004	Casey v. Casey†	82 Conn. App. 378	35
2004	Alexandru v. Strong†	81 Conn. App. 68	34
2005	State v. Sargent†	87 Conn. App. 24	31
2004	Barasso v. Rear Still Hill Road, LLC†	81 Conn. App. 798	30
2004	State v. Coleman†	83 Conn. App. 672	29
2009	Auerbach v. Auerbach	966 A.2d 292	28
2007	McGuire v. McGuire	924 A.2d 886	28
2006	Bellman v. Town of West Hartford†	96 Conn. App. 387	27
2007	Whitaker v. Taylor	916 A.2d 834	26
2005	Winchester v. McCue	882 A.2d 143	26
2003	State v. Hooks†	80 Conn. App. 75	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 196 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 C Ian McLachlan on?: C Ian McLachlan was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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6 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).