Who appointed Stefan R. Underhill?

President William J. Clinton appointed Stefan R. Underhill to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1999.

Was Stefan R. Underhill appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Stefan R. Underhill was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Stefan R. Underhill's confirmation vote?

The Senate confirmed Stefan R. Underhill 94–4 on June 30, 1999.

District of Connecticut / Appointed 1999 / Senior status since 2022

Stefan R. Underhill

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1999 and confirmed by the Senate 94–4, Stefan R. Underhill is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1984. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 1999
Confirmed: 94–4
Education: University of Virginia 1978 · Yale Law School 1984
Succeeded: Peter Collins Dorsey
Succeeded by: Vernon Dion Oliver

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	District of Connecticut succeeded Peter Collins Dorsey	Clinton (D)	94–4

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own.

Confirmation vote

Nomination Confirmed 94–4 on June 30, 1999 · 106th Congress, Roll Call 190. Each senator links to their judicial-voting record.

Voted to confirm · 94

45 D, 49 R

Voted against · 4

4 R

Did not vote · 2

2 R

Connie Mack(R-FL)
George Voinovich(R-OH)

Education

University of Virginia	B.A.	1978
University of Oxford	B.A.	1981
Yale Law School	J.D.	1984

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Underhill was assigned 5,001 district-court cases (1978–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 288 days across 4,554 closed cases.

Civil rights17%

Other civil matters16%

Contract14%

Other federal statutes11%

Prisoner & habeas9%

Personal-injury torts8%

Other25%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 224 of Underhill’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 179 were affirmed, 21 reversed or vacated, and 24 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Underhill authored 148 published opinions for the court (1999–2011). Most cited: Miner v. Town of Cheshire (72 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2000	Miner v. Town of Cheshire	126 F. Supp. 2d 184	72
2001	Travelers Property & Casualty Corp. v. General Electric Co	150 F. Supp. 2d 360	33
2010	McIntire v. Astrue	809 F. Supp. 2d 13	30
2006	Mercury Capital Corp. v. Milford Connecticut Associates, L.P.	354 B.R. 1	29
2003	Birdsall v. City of Hartford	249 F. Supp. 2d 163	27
2009	Book v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems	608 F. Supp. 2d 277	22
2009	Nails v. LaPlante	596 F. Supp. 2d 475	22
2006	Haddock Ex Rel. Flyte Tool & Dye Co. v. Nationwide Financial Services Inc.	419 F. Supp. 2d 156	22
2006	SPGGC, Inc. v. Blumenthal	408 F. Supp. 2d 87	21
2009	Mele v. Hill Health Center	609 F. Supp. 2d 248	19
2009	Faraday v. Blanchette	596 F. Supp. 2d 508	19
2009	Titan Real Estate Ventures, LLC v. MJCC Realty LP (In Re Flanagan)	415 B.R. 29	18
2003	Edwards v. Community Enterprises, Inc.	251 F. Supp. 2d 1089	18
2010	Diaz-Bernal v. Myers	758 F. Supp. 2d 106	17
2006	Auguste v. Department of Corrections	424 F. Supp. 2d 363	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 148 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

Who appointed Stefan R. Underhill?: President William J. Clinton appointed Stefan R. Underhill to the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1999.
Was Stefan R. Underhill appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Stefan R. Underhill was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Stefan R. Underhill's confirmation vote?: The Senate confirmed Stefan R. Underhill 94–4 on June 30, 1999.
Which court is Stefan R. Underhill on?: Stefan R. Underhill is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Sources

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27 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).