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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1993 / Served to 2002

E Eugene Spear

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

E Eugene Spear was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2002 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Spear authored 244 published opinions for the court (1994–2002), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Henry v. Commissioner of Correction (81 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. 255 of these were attributed to Spear 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
2000	Henry v. Commissioner of Correction†	60 Conn. App. 313	81
1995	Whalen v. Ives†	37 Conn. App. 7	60
2001	Opoku v. Grant†	63 Conn. App. 686	58
1996	Cummings v. Twin Tool Manufacturing Co.†	40 Conn. App. 36	56
2000	In re Deana E.· Concurrence†	61 Conn. App. 185	52
1997	McNeil v. Riccio†	45 Conn. App. 466	47
2000	In re Stanley D.†	61 Conn. App. 224	46
1998	Blakeney v. Commissioner of Correction†	47 Conn. App. 568	45
2001	Elm Street Builders, Inc. v. Enterprise Park Condominium Ass'n†	63 Conn. App. 657	43
1996	DiNapoli v. Cooke· Dissent†	43 Conn. App. 419	42
2001	Murray v. Taylor†	65 Conn. App. 300	38
2000	Exley v. Connecticut Yankee Greyhound Racing, Inc.†	59 Conn. App. 224	38
1997	Ciarlelli v. Romeo†	46 Conn. App. 277	38
2000	State v. Debarros†	58 Conn. App. 673	37
1994	State v. Smith†	35 Conn. App. 51	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 255 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 E Eugene Spear on?: E Eugene Spear was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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9 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).