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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 2001 / Served to 2011

Thomas A. Bishop

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Thomas A. Bishop was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1941 · age 85
Tenure: 2001–2011 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bishop authored 351 published opinions for the court (2002–2012), plus 17 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Toccaline v. Commissioner of Correction (46 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. 193 of these were attributed to Bishop 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
2004	Toccaline v. Commissioner of Correction†	80 Conn. App. 792	46
2007	Embalmers' Supply Co. v. Giannitti· Concurrence†	929 A.2d 729	39
2009	State v. DONALD M.	966 A.2d 266	38
2005	In re Jermaine S.†	86 Conn. App. 819	38
2006	Bellemare v. Wachovia Mortgage Corp.†	94 Conn. App. 593	37
2003	Miller v. Guimaraes†	78 Conn. App. 760	34
2002	In re Ebony H.†	68 Conn. App. 342	34
2011	State v. Eleck†	130 Conn. App. 632	33
2002	State v. Henry†	72 Conn. App. 640	31
2009	Anderson v. Commissioner of Correction	971 A.2d 766	28
2006	Hughes v. Hughes	895 A.2d 274	27
2004	Sanders v. Commissioner of Correction†	83 Conn. App. 543	27
2010	State v. Elson· Concurrence†	9 A.3d 731	26
2010	DiPietro v. Farmington Sports Arena, LLC· Concurrence†	2 A.3d 963	25
2008	State v. Hamlett	939 A.2d 1256	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 383 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 Thomas A. Bishop on?: Thomas A. Bishop was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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10 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).