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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2006 / Active

Douglas S. Lavine

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Douglas S. Lavine is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Colgate University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Lavine authored 300 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 12 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Lorthe v. Commissioner of Correction (31 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. 193 of these were attributed to Lavine 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
2007	Lorthe v. Commissioner of Correction	931 A.2d 348	31
2007	State v. Cromety	925 A.2d 1133	29
2013	State v. Martin M.†	143 Conn. App. 140	27
2008	In re T.K.†	105 Conn. App. 502	27
2006	State v. Youngs	904 A.2d 1240	25
2007	In Re Anthony H.	936 A.2d 638	24
2011	McKeon v. Lennon· Concurrence†	27 A.3d 436	23
2007	State v. Williams	926 A.2d 7	23
2009	Perez v. D AND L TRACTOR TRAILER SCHOOL	981 A.2d 497	22
2009	Malave v. Ortiz	970 A.2d 743	22
2008	State v. Rodriguez	946 A.2d 294	22
2008	State v. Nelson	937 A.2d 1249	22
2016	State v. Williams-Bey†	144 A.3d 467	20
2009	State v. Velez†	966 A.2d 743	20
2012	Zollo v. Commissioner of Correction	35 A.3d 337	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 333 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 Douglas S. Lavine on?: Douglas S. Lavine is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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20 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).