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Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies

Department of Motor Vehicles

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority | Agency History |
Published histories/articles | State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page

Statutory Authority :
CGS Title 14.

Agency History :

1917, established per Public Acts chpt. 232.

Published Histories/Articles :
Connecticut. Dept. of Motor Vehicles. 40th Anniversary, 1917-1957. Hartford, Connecticut : Dept. of Motor Vehicles, [1957]. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc M857fo]
Connecticut. Dept. of Motor Vehicles. 50th Anniversary. Wethersfield, Connecticut : Dept. of Motor Vehicles, 1967. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc M857fif]

Archived Motor Vehicles Web site, as harvested on 2007-04-05, by the Connecticut State Library, Connecticut Digital Archive.

Agency Documents and Records in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

Connecticut. Dept. of Motor Vehicles.

Annual Reports are located in :

[CSL Call Number ConnDoc M857r]
Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d], and 2002-, the online version

State Archives Record Group : RG 117

List of Commissioners :

Name

Years of Service

Robbins B. Stoeckel

1 June 1917-1933

Michael A. Connor

1933-1941

John T. McCarthy

1941-1946

Colonel Elmer S. Watson

1947-1949

Cornelius F. Mulvihill

1949-1950

Charles F. Kelley

1951-1954

John J. Tynan

1955-1970

Robert C. Leuba

1971-1972

Edward J. Kozlowski

1973-1974

Mati Koiva (Acting)

1974

Stanley J. Pac

1975-1976

Benjamin A. Muzio

1977-1986

Lawrence F. Delponte

1987-1991

Louis S. Goldberg

1991-1993

Nicholas Camillone (Interim)

1993

Nancy L. Hadley

1993-1995

Michael W. Kozlowski

1995-1996

Mary Gentile (Acting)

1996-1997

Jose O. Salinas

1997-June 2000

Gary J. DeFilippo

2000-Feb. 1, 2005

Ralph J. Carpenter

2005-August 2006

William Ramirez (Acting)

August 2006-January 2007

Robert M. Ward (Acting)

Jan.-March 7, 2007

Robert M. Ward

March 7, 2007-2011

Melody Currey

Jan. 5, 2011-

Note : The first Commissioner took office June 1, 1917. The first printed report covered 15 months, ending 9/30/1918, during which time the department was a commission.  
Prior to June 1, 1917, the department was part of the office of the Secretary of the State

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 01/2011.