Peter Collins Dorsey (March 24, 1931 – January 20, 2012) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Peter Collins Dorsey
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
Born 1931 in New London, CT
Died 2012 in New Haven, CT
FJC ID: 638
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 13/year
Connecticut District Court · 1983–2012Connecticut District Court · 1983–2012
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1996–1998
- Private practice, New Haven, Connecticut1959–1974, 1977–1983
U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut1974–1977- U.S. Naval Reserve1953–1956
Appointments
1983–2012 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1959- Yale UniversityB.A. · 1953