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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1998 / Served to 1999

Joanne K. Kulawiz

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Joanne K. Kulawiz was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1935–1999
Tenure: 1998–1999 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Albertus Magnus College
George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kulawiz authored 5 published opinions for the court (1998–1999). Most cited: Southbridge Associates, LLC v. Garofalo (125 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. 5 of these were attributed to Kulawiz 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
1999	Southbridge Associates, LLC v. Garofalo†	53 Conn. App. 11	125
1998	State v. Teti†	50 Conn. App. 34	22
1998	Inwood Condominium Ass'n v. Winer†	49 Conn. App. 694	13
1998	State v. Boulier†	49 Conn. App. 702	10
1998	State v. Peczynski†	50 Conn. App. 51	3

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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 Joanne K. Kulawiz on?: Joanne K. Kulawiz was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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1 year 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).