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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2011 / Active

Michael R. Sheldon

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Michael R. Sheldon is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sheldon authored 162 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: O'Reilly v. Valletta (25 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. 161 of these were attributed to Sheldon 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
2012	O'Reilly v. Valletta†	139 Conn. App. 208	25
2012	State v. Osbourne†	138 Conn. App. 518	23
2013	State v. Thompson†	146 Conn. App. 249	17
2013	Thomas v. Commissioner of Correction†	141 Conn. App. 465	17
2017	State v. Reddick†	166 A.3d 754	16
2017	Rendahl v. Peluso†	162 A.3d 1	16
2013	State v. Carter†	141 Conn. App. 377	16
2012	O'Brien v. O'Brien†	138 Conn. App. 544	16
2013	State v. Santiago†	143 Conn. App. 26	15
2017	Noze v. Commissioner of Correction†	173 A.3d 525	14
2017	St. Joseph's High School, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	170 A.3d 73	13
2017	State v. Raynor†	167 A.3d 1076	13
2013	Holloway v. Commissioner of Correction†	145 Conn. App. 353	13
2012	State v. Mucha†	137 Conn. App. 173	13
2016	Diamond 67, LLC v. Oatis†	144 A.3d 1055	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 166 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 Michael R. Sheldon on?: Michael R. Sheldon is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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15 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).