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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2013 / Active

Chrstine E. Keller

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Chrstine E. Keller is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Smith College
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Keller authored 117 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Tutson v. Commissioner of Correction (34 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. 119 of these were attributed to Keller 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
2013	Tutson v. Commissioner of Correction†	144 Conn. App. 203	34
2016	Bank of America, N.A. v. Aubut†	143 A.3d 638	29
2014	Matthews v. SBA, Inc.†	149 Conn. App. 513	24
2018	U.S. Bank National Assn. v. Eichten†	196 A.3d 328	22
2018	Henderson v. Commissioner of Correction†	189 A.3d 135	21
2014	Perugini v. Giuliano†	148 Conn. App. 861	21
2018	State v. Papineau†	190 A.3d 913	20
2014	In re Kyara H.†	147 Conn. App. 855	19
2019	Villafane v. Commissioner of Correction†	211 A.3d 72	17
2017	McFarline v. Mickens†	173 A.3d 417	17
2019	Parnoff v. Aquarian Water Co. of Connecticut (AC40383)†	204 A.3d 717	15
2016	State v. Estrella J.C.†	148 A.3d 594	15
2018	State v. Esquilin†	179 A.3d 238	13
2017	State v. Brito†	154 A.3d 535	13
2016	Ferraro v. Ferraro†	147 A.3d 188	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 119 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 Chrstine E. Keller on?: Chrstine E. Keller is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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13 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).