Alfred V. Covello

Who is Alfred V. Covello?

Alfred V. Covello is a United States federal judge.

Covello was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1954, and then an LL.B. and a J.D. 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, Connecticut from 1960 to 1974. Covello became a member of the Charter Revision Commission in West Hartford, Connecticut 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.

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.