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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2000 / Served to 2003

Socrates H. Mihalakos

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Socrates H. Mihalakos was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2003 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Brown University
University of Connecticut

Judicial Record

In our data, Mihalakos authored 153 published opinions for the court (2000–2011), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: In re Quanitra M. (77 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. 126 of these were attributed to Mihalakos 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
2000	In re Quanitra M.†	60 Conn. App. 96	77
2000	In re Michael D.†	58 Conn. App. 119	43
2000	In re Michael L.†	56 Conn. App. 688	34
2003	State v. Sanchez†	75 Conn. App. 223	33
2002	State v. Colon†	71 Conn. App. 217	33
2000	Jacques All Trades Corp. v. Brown†	57 Conn. App. 189	32
2002	State v. Irala†	68 Conn. App. 499	26
2002	Santoro v. Santoro†	70 Conn. App. 212	25
2000	Bank of America, FSB v. Franco†	57 Conn. App. 688	25
2000	Medcalf v. Washington Heights Condominium Ass'n†	57 Conn. App. 12	25
2000	In re Amber B.†	56 Conn. App. 776	25
2006	State v. Sam	907 A.2d 99	24
2002	State v. Rogelstad†	73 Conn. App. 17	24
2002	State v. Senquiz†	68 Conn. App. 571	22
2000	Szczerkowski v. Karmelowicz†	60 Conn. App. 429	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Socrates H. Mihalakos on?: Socrates H. Mihalakos was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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3 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).