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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1984

Joseph F. Dannehy

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Joseph F. Dannehy was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–2003
Tenure: 1983–1984 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Dannehy authored 18 published opinions for the court (1962–1984). Most cited: Osborne v. Osborne (45 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. 3 of these were attributed to Dannehy 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
1984	Osborne v. Osborne†	2 Conn. App. 635	45
1983	Wesleyan University v. Rissil Construction Associates, Inc.	472 A.2d 23	34
1984	Francis v. Hollauer	1 Conn. App. 693	28
1983	Guss v. Guss	472 A.2d 790	23
1984	Ritcher v. Childers	478 A.2d 613	19
1984	Balboni v. Stonick†	2 Conn. App. 523	17
1984	State v. Soriano	476 A.2d 633	8
1984	Shelton Sewer Authority v. Defilippo	478 A.2d 623	7
1983	Finley v. Manson	470 A.2d 1234	7
1962	State v. Gotsch	184 A.2d 56	7
1984	Clayman v. Prochaska	479 A.2d 1214	5
1984	Geckle v. Dubno	478 A.2d 263	4
1984	Hunt v. Dubno	473 A.2d 1235	4
1983	Vetter v. Technical Management, Inc.	471 A.2d 653	4
1962	Ide v. Crown Super Market of New Haven, Inc.	181 A.2d 258	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 Joseph F. Dannehy on?: Joseph F. Dannehy was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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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).