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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2006 / Served to 2011

Joette Katz

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Joette Katz was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 2006. She previously served on the Connecticut Supreme Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: 2006–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–
2006	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Brandeis University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Katz authored 411 published opinions for the court (1992–2011), plus 43 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp. (817 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. 418 of these were attributed to Katz 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
1994	Suarez v. Dickmont Plastics Corp.†	229 Conn. 99	817
1995	Miller v. United Technologies Corp.†	233 Conn. 732	543
1998	Pamela B. v. Ment†	244 Conn. 296	501
1997	Parsons v. United Technologies Corp.· Concurrence†	243 Conn. 66	482
1998	Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp.†	245 Conn. 1	356
1995	Copas v. Commissioner of Correction†	234 Conn. 139	345
1997	Dodd v. Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co.†	242 Conn. 375	323
1995	Heyman Associates No. 1 v. Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania†	231 Conn. 756	319
1996	Napoletano v. CIGNA Healthcare of Connecticut, Inc.†	238 Conn. 216	312
1992	Habetz v. Condon†	224 Conn. 231	283
1992	Wadia Enterprises, Inc. v. Hirschfeld†	224 Conn. 240	277
1996	Fink v. Golenbock†	238 Conn. 183	275
1999	Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc.†	248 Conn. 21	260
2003	State v. Reynolds· Dissent†	264 Conn. 1	248
2011	State v. Kitchens· Concurrence†	10 A.3d 942	242

Showing the 15 most-cited of 492 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 Joette Katz on?: Joette Katz was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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5 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).