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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2014 / Active

Eliot D. Prescott

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Eliot D. Prescott is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1965 · age 61
Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Prescott authored 102 published opinions for the court (2016–2019), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Green v. Commissioner of Correction (25 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. 106 of these were attributed to Prescott 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
2018	Green v. Commissioner of Correction†	194 A.3d 857	25
2016	Moye v. Commissioner of Correction†	145 A.3d 362	21
2017	Sovereign Bank v. Licata†	172 A.3d 1263	20
2016	State v. Leniart†	140 A.3d 1026	20
2016	Brown v. Otake†	138 A.3d 951	19
2016	Flomo v. Commissioner of Correction†	149 A.3d 185	18
2018	Zilkha v. Zilkha†	183 A.3d 64	17
2016	Lawrence v. Cords†	139 A.3d 778	17
2018	Boria v. Commissioner of Correction†	199 A.3d 1127	16
2017	State v. Rios†	156 A.3d 18	16
2016	State v. Rivera†	150 A.3d 244	16
2017	Northrup v. Witkowski†	167 A.3d 443	15
2016	In re Leilah W.†	141 A.3d 1000	15
2018	Bank of New York Mellon v. Horsey†	190 A.3d 105	14
2017	State v. Bonds†	158 A.3d 826	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 106 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 Eliot D. Prescott on?: Eliot D. Prescott is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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12 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).