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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1992 / Served to 1999

Frederick A. Freedman

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Frederick A. Freedman was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1999 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

University of Connecticut
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Freedman authored 125 published opinions for the court (1992–2010), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In re Kelly S. (101 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. 130 of these were attributed to Freedman 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
1992	In re Kelly S.†	29 Conn. App. 600	101
1993	Whisper Wind Development Corp. v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	32 Conn. App. 515	78
1993	Cole v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	30 Conn. App. 511	74
1993	Federal Deposit Insurance v. Retirement Management Group, Inc.†	31 Conn. App. 80	47
1993	Nardi v. AA Electronic Security Engineering, Inc.†	32 Conn. App. 205	45
1994	Bennett v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act†	34 Conn. App. 620	38
1993	Pelletier v. Warden†	32 Conn. App. 38	38
1993	Michel v. Michel†	31 Conn. App. 338	36
1992	Sagamore Group, Inc. v. Commissioner of Transportation†	29 Conn. App. 292	32
1995	Spearhead Construction Corp. v. Bianco· Concurrence†	39 Conn. App. 122	30
1992	Jeffries v. Johnson†	27 Conn. App. 471	30
1994	Morelli v. Manpower, Inc.†	34 Conn. App. 419	29
1993	Mulholland v. Mulholland†	31 Conn. App. 214	29
1992	Stevens v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.†	29 Conn. App. 378	29
1992	Pullman, Comley, Bradley & Reeves v. Tuck-it-away, Bridgeport, Inc.†	28 Conn. App. 460	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 133 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 Frederick A. Freedman on?: Frederick A. Freedman was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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7 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).