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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1990

David M. Borden

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

David M. Borden was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1990 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Amherst College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Borden authored 342 published opinions for the court (1981–2012), plus 12 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Juvenile Appeal (84-3) (208 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. 269 of these were attributed to Borden 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
1983	In Re Juvenile Appeal (84-3)	473 A.2d 795	208
1988	Daughters of St. Paul, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	17 Conn. App. 53	125
1987	Battista v. United Illuminating Co.†	10 Conn. App. 486	102
1988	City of Bridgeport v. Barbour-Daniel Electronics, Inc.· Dissent†	16 Conn. App. 574	101
1983	Southland Corp. v. Vernon	473 A.2d 318	75
1988	Gutierrez v. Thorne†	13 Conn. App. 493	74
1987	Dennison v. Klotz†	12 Conn. App. 570	73
1985	Goldfeld v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	3 Conn. App. 172	68
1990	R. B. Kent & Son, Inc. v. Planning Commission†	21 Conn. App. 370	65
1985	State v. Dumlao†	3 Conn. App. 607	65
1989	Fattibene v. Kealey†	18 Conn. App. 344	64
1988	Ierardi v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities†	15 Conn. App. 569	63
1986	In re Christine F.†	6 Conn. App. 360	63
1986	Zotta v. Burns†	8 Conn. App. 169	62
1985	Grayson v. Grayson· Dissent†	4 Conn. App. 275	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 363 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 David M. Borden on?: David M. Borden was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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7 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).