Alfred V. Covello

Alfred Vincent Covello
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Incumbent
Assumed office February 4, 2003
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
In office 1998–2003
Preceded by	Peter Collins Dorsey
Succeeded by	Robert Chatigny
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
In office August 17, 1992 – February 4, 2003
Appointed by	George H. W. Bush
Preceded by	Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089
Succeeded by	Mark R. Kravitz
Personal details
Born	Alfred Vincent Covello (1933-02-04) February 4, 1933 Hartford, Connecticut
Education	Harvard University (AB) University of Connecticut School of Law (LLB, JD)

Alfred Vincent Covello (born February 4, 1933) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Education and career

Covello was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Harvard University in 1954, and then a Bachelor of Laws and a Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1960. He was in the United States Army Personnel Specialist from 1955 to 1959. He was in private practice of law in Hartford from 1960 to 1974. Covello became a member of the Charter Revision Commission in West Hartford in 1964. He was counsel to this same commission in 1966 and from 1969 to 1970. He was also counsel to the Office of Corporation Counsel in West Hartford from 1964 to 1967.

State judicial service

Covello served as judge in a number of courts beginning in the 1970s. He was a judge on the Circuit Court for the State of Connecticut from 1974 to 1975, then to Connecticut's Court of Common Pleas from 1975 to 1978. He was a judge on the Superior Court of Connecticut from 1978 to 1992, and a judge on the Appellate Session of the Superior Court from 1980 to 1983. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1987 to 1992, and an administrative judge on the Appellate System in 1992.

Federal judicial service

Covello was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut by President George H. W. Bush on April 1, 1992, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 12, 1992, and received commission on August 17, 1992. He became chief judge in 1998, serving that status until he assumed senior status on February 4, 2003.

External links

• Alfred V. Covello at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.