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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1999 / Served to 2015

Peter T. Zarella

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Peter T. Zarella was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1999–2015 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Zarella authored 34 published opinions for the court (2000–2001), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Holley v. Commissioner of Correction (39 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. 35 of these were attributed to Zarella 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	Holley v. Commissioner of Correction†	62 Conn. App. 170	39
2001	Coughlin v. City of Waterbury†	61 Conn. App. 310	25
2001	Statewide Grievance Committee v. Dixon†	62 Conn. App. 507	20
2000	Yellow Page Consultants, Inc. v. Omni Home Health Services, Inc.†	59 Conn. App. 194	19
2000	Richter v. Danbury Hospital†	60 Conn. App. 280	18
2001	Murphy, Inc. v. Remodeling†	62 Conn. App. 517	17
2001	Heritage Square, LLC v. Eoanou†	61 Conn. App. 329	17
2000	State v. Romero†	59 Conn. App. 469	17
2000	State v. Torres†	60 Conn. App. 562	15
2000	Petronella v. Venture Partners, Ltd.· Dissent†	60 Conn. App. 205	15
2001	State v. Davis†	61 Conn. App. 621	14
2000	Vogel v. Maimonides Academy of Western Connecticut, Inc.†	58 Conn. App. 624	14
2001	State v. Thomas†	62 Conn. App. 356	13
2000	Schlicher v. Schwartz†	58 Conn. App. 80	13
2001	State v. Sotomayor†	61 Conn. App. 364	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Peter T. Zarella on?: Peter T. Zarella was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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16 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).