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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 1997

Maxwell Heiman

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Maxwell Heiman was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court (11 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–1997 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

University of Connecticut
Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Heiman authored 216 published opinions for the court (1991–1997), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In re Alexander V. (150 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. 227 of these were attributed to Heiman 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
1991	In re Alexander V.· Concurrence†	25 Conn. App. 741	150
1991	Cummings & Lockwood v. Gray†	26 Conn. App. 293	108
1996	Calnan v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act†	43 Conn. App. 779	85
1992	Polverari v. Peatt†	29 Conn. App. 191	82
1994	Gabrielle v. Hospital of St. Raphael†	33 Conn. App. 378	79
1992	Emerick v. Emerick†	28 Conn. App. 794	77
1997	Mullen v. Horton†	46 Conn. App. 759	63
1992	Bassin v. City of Stamford†	26 Conn. App. 534	60
1994	Clement v. Clement†	34 Conn. App. 641	59
1993	Rosick v. Equipment Maintenance & Service, Inc.†	33 Conn. App. 25	58
1993	Fortier v. Newington Group, Inc.†	30 Conn. App. 505	55
1992	Michel v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	28 Conn. App. 314	54
1991	Protter v. Brown Thompson & Co.†	25 Conn. App. 360	48
1993	State v. Reddick†	33 Conn. App. 311	46
1993	State v. Leonard†	31 Conn. App. 178	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 227 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 Maxwell Heiman on?: Maxwell Heiman was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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7 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).