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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2005 / Active

F Herbert Gruendel

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

F Herbert Gruendel is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Drew University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Gruendel authored 308 published opinions for the court (2005–2017), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Commissioner of Mental Health & Addiction Services v. Saeedi (110 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. 141 of these were attributed to Gruendel 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	Commissioner of Mental Health & Addiction Services v. Saeedi†	143 Conn. App. 839	110
2007	Vollemans v. Town of Wallingford	928 A.2d 586	40
2010	Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance v. Underwriters at Lloyd's & Companies Collective	994 A.2d 262	31
2007	Brunswick v. Statewide Grievance Committee†	931 A.2d 319	31
2009	First Connecticut Capital, LLC v. Homes of Westport, LLC	966 A.2d 239	30
2008	In Re TK	939 A.2d 9	30
2014	Meadowbrook Center, Inc. v. Buchman†	149 Conn. App. 177	28
2009	State v. Faison	962 A.2d 860	28
2006	Chiulli v. Zola	905 A.2d 1236	27
2006	Duplissie v. Devino†	96 Conn. App. 673	27
2007	Fennelly v. Norton	931 A.2d 269	26
2008	Weiner v. Clinton	942 A.2d 469	25
2006	State v. Necaise†	97 Conn. App. 214	25
2010	Singhaviroj v. Board of Education†	124 Conn. App. 228	24
2006	Vanliner Insurance v. Fay	907 A.2d 1220	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 314 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 F Herbert Gruendel on?: F Herbert Gruendel is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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21 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).