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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1988 / Served to 2005

Paul M. Foti

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Paul M. Foti was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court (11 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2005 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Foti authored 683 published opinions for the court (1988–2012), plus 14 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Stankiewicz v. Zoning Board of Appeals (143 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. 653 of these were attributed to Foti 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
1988	Stankiewicz v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	15 Conn. App. 729	143
1991	Kane v. Parry†	24 Conn. App. 307	104
1990	Fuller v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	21 Conn. App. 340	104
1989	Rokalor, Inc. v. Connecticut Eating Enterprises, Inc.†	18 Conn. App. 384	88
1990	Sowin Associates v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	23 Conn. App. 370	85
1989	Lo Sacco v. Young†	20 Conn. App. 6	84
1992	Gulycz v. Stop & Shop Companies†	29 Conn. App. 519	65
1989	Rostenberg-Doern Co. v. Weiner†	17 Conn. App. 294	65
2002	Fidelity Bank v. Krenisky†	72 Conn. App. 700	64
1997	Northeast Parking, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	47 Conn. App. 284	63
1996	Reynolds v. Chrysler First Commercial Corp.†	40 Conn. App. 725	63
1991	Stillman v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	25 Conn. App. 631	60
1990	Noble v. Marshall†	23 Conn. App. 227	60
2001	In re Sheila J.†	62 Conn. App. 470	59
1998	Suarez-Negrete v. Trotta†	47 Conn. App. 517	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 699 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 Paul M. Foti on?: Paul M. Foti was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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17 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).