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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2001 / Active

Joseph P. Flynn

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Joseph P. Flynn is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Fairfield University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Flynn authored 691 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 24 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Landry v. Spitz (53 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. 234 of these were attributed to Flynn 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
2007	Landry v. Spitz	925 A.2d 334	53
2007	State v. Russell	922 A.2d 191	45
2008	Somers v. Chan	955 A.2d 667	42
2009	Votre v. County Obstetrics & Gynecology Group, P.C.	966 A.2d 813	41
2008	Blum v. Blum	951 A.2d 587	40
2007	Embalmers' Supply Co. v. Giannitti	929 A.2d 729	39
2001	Forte v. Citicorp Mortgage, Inc.†	66 Conn. App. 475	39
2008	State v. Pommer	955 A.2d 637	38
2010	Harley v. Indian Spring Land Co.	3 A.3d 992	36
2007	State v. Pauling	925 A.2d 1200	34
2010	State v. Kendall· Concurrence†	2 A.3d 990	32
2007	Young v. Commissioner of Correction	932 A.2d 467	32
2002	Henriquez v. Allegre†	68 Conn. App. 238	32
2008	State v. Smith	946 A.2d 319	31
2007	Brunswick v. Statewide Grievance Committee	931 A.2d 319	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 726 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 is Joseph P. Flynn on?: Joseph P. Flynn is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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25 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).