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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2000 / Active

Joseph H. Pellegrino

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Joseph H. Pellegrino is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Pellegrino authored 122 published opinions for the court (2000–2019), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Milner v. Commissioner of Correction (32 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. 81 of these were attributed to Pellegrino 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
2001	Milner v. Commissioner of Correction†	63 Conn. App. 726	32
2008	Wasko v. Farley	947 A.2d 978	25
2001	Lyons v. Nichols†	63 Conn. App. 761	25
2001	Anastasia v. Beautiful You Hair Designs, Inc.†	61 Conn. App. 471	25
2000	State v. Williams†	60 Conn. App. 575	25
2000	Daigle v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance†	60 Conn. App. 465	22
2001	Green v. Connecticut Disposal Service, Inc.†	62 Conn. App. 83	21
2001	Par Painting, Inc. v. Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.†	61 Conn. App. 317	19
2000	Bunting v. Bunting· Dissent†	60 Conn. App. 665	19
2006	State v. Gaymon	899 A.2d 715	17
2000	Pospisil v. Pospisil†	59 Conn. App. 446	17
2000	Davis v. Fracasso†	59 Conn. App. 291	17
2008	Sproviero v. J.M. Scott Associates, Inc.	948 A.2d 379	16
2008	Gentile v. Carneiro	946 A.2d 871	16
2008	State v. Tok	945 A.2d 558	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 127 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 H. Pellegrino on?: Joseph H. Pellegrino is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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26 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).