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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2007 / Active

Robert E. Beach Jr.

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Robert E. Beach Jr. is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Beach authored 253 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 6 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Kendall (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. 149 of these were attributed to Beach 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
2010	State v. Kendall	2 A.3d 990	32
2009	Centimark Corp. v. Village Manor Associates Ltd. Partnership	967 A.2d 550	29
2008	Watrous v. Watrous	949 A.2d 557	28
2012	Willamette Management Associates, Inc. v. Palczynski	38 A.3d 1212	21
2010	State v. Bozelko	987 A.2d 1102	20
2009	Rossman v. Morasco	974 A.2d 1	20
2013	Bruno v. Bruno†	146 Conn. App. 214	19
2009	State v. Rosario	966 A.2d 249	19
2018	Chioffi v. Martin†	186 A.3d 15	18
2013	Melendez v. Commissioner of Correction†	141 Conn. App. 836	18
2013	In re Jah'za G.†	141 Conn. App. 15	18
2010	Desai v. Desai	987 A.2d 362	18
2009	State v. Stuart	967 A.2d 532	18
2010	State v. Casiano†	122 Conn. App. 61	17
2008	Bloom v. Miklovich	958 A.2d 1283	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 265 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 Robert E. Beach Jr. on?: Robert E. Beach Jr. is a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

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18 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).