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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1989 / Served to 1995

William J. Lavery

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

William J. Lavery was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1989–1995 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Fairfield University
Fordham University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lavery authored 287 published opinions for the court (1989–2012), plus 15 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: S.M.S. Textile Mills, Inc. v. Brown, Jacobson, Tillinghast, Lahan & King, P.C. (273 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. 195 of these were attributed to Lavery 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
1993	S.M.S. Textile Mills, Inc. v. Brown, Jacobson, Tillinghast, Lahan & King, P.C.†	32 Conn. App. 786	273
1993	Discover Leasing, Inc. v. Murphy†	33 Conn. App. 303	99
1995	Santiago v. Commissioner of Correction†	39 Conn. App. 674	81
1992	Lester v. Resort Camplands International, Inc.†	27 Conn. App. 59	76
1995	In re Christina V.†	38 Conn. App. 214	74
1992	Kolaniak v. Board of Education†	28 Conn. App. 277	74
1993	Southern New England Telephone Co. v. Board of Tax Review†	31 Conn. App. 155	69
1992	Collins v. Goldberg†	28 Conn. App. 733	67
1994	Tyler v. Schnabel†	34 Conn. App. 216	64
1990	Kelly v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	21 Conn. App. 594	55
1994	Jeffrey v. Commissioner of Correction†	36 Conn. App. 216	53
1992	State v. Boykin†	27 Conn. App. 558	51
1991	In re Sean H.†	24 Conn. App. 135	51
1989	Barclays Bank of New York v. Ivler†	20 Conn. App. 163	49
2005	Florian v. Lenge	880 A.2d 985	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 306 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 William J. Lavery on?: William J. Lavery was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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6 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).