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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1994 / Served to 2000

Francis X. Hennessy

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Francis X. Hennessy was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court (11 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2013
Tenure: 1994–2000 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Fordham University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Hennessy authored 227 published opinions for the court (1982–2011), plus 7 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In re Tabitha (144 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. 185 of these were attributed to Hennessy 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
1995	In re Tabitha†	39 Conn. App. 353	144
2000	Colon v. Board of Education†	60 Conn. App. 178	68
1995	Gambardella v. Kaoud†	38 Conn. App. 355	57
1998	Avon Meadow Condominium Ass'n v. Bank of Boston Connecticut†	50 Conn. App. 688	54
1999	Appleton v. Board of Education†	53 Conn. App. 252	45
1995	State v. Cooper· Dissent†	38 Conn. App. 661	43
1998	In re Jessica B.†	50 Conn. App. 554	42
1995	State v. Laws· Concurrence†	37 Conn. App. 276	40
1995	State v. Hermann†	38 Conn. App. 56	38
1995	Drew v. K-Mart Corp.†	37 Conn. App. 239	38
1998	In re Jessica M.· Concurrence†	49 Conn. App. 229	37
1998	State v. Henderson†	47 Conn. App. 542	36
1995	Woodburn v. Conservation Commission†	37 Conn. App. 166	36
1998	Yeong Gil Kim v. Magnotta†	49 Conn. App. 203	35
1999	State v. Barnett†	53 Conn. App. 581	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 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 Francis X. Hennessy on?: Francis X. Hennessy was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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6 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).