CT Supreme and Appellate Court Justices
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They changed Supreme Court Chief Justice after I was served an illegal Notice To Quit in September 2024! Claiming I did not pay rent for August and September - since in July their maintenance manager smashed in my door, invading my apartment when I was taking a bath!
Connecticut doesn't allow orders of protection on people who aren't related to the victims.
They also conveniently have a
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN LAW
statute of limitations on FRAUD, EMBEZZLEMENT, FORGERY, LARCENY - the whole shebang! If they don't get caught in 3 years, they're off the hook!
I was so traumatized I had to rest for weeks; and then got sick; and someone crammed something in my door - I thought it was a bomb! I was too sick to leave anyway for a number of days! On September 18 I discovered it was a Notice To Quit!
Return Date was on or about October 18; I returned it with a Housing Complaint, proving the Notice to Quit was invalid! I paid my rent! They fraud billing! They were ordered by a court to remove $14,000 in fraudulent charges! They resumed the fraudulent billing with more Devil's Chessboard tactics!
2026 Staff in Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts
I will also provide 2025 and 2024 if they haven't deleted it from Internet to cover up their DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD TACTICS!
They deleted it! And getting the information is like pulling hair out of my teeth! But I'm trying! So revisit this because I'll add information when I can ...
Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Chief Justice Raheem L. Mullins
The Honorable Raheem L. Mullins became the Chief Justice on Monday, September 30, 2024, after being nominated by Governor Ned Lamont on September 6, 2024. He is the youngest person to be appointed to the position of Chief Justice. He was nominated to the Supreme Court on October 4, 2017, by Governor Dannel P. Malloy. Chief Justice Mullins was sworn in as a Supreme Court associate justice on November 1, 2017. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Mullins served as a judge on the Appellate Court and as a trial judge on the Superior Court.Born in Middletown, Justice Mullins graduated from Watkinson School in Hartford. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Clark University in Worcester, Mass. in 2001 and his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 2004. While at Northeastern, Justice Mullins participated in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition; his team won best brief award and placed fourth in the nation on the oral advocacy piece of the competition. After graduating from Northeastern, he clerked for Judge Frederick Brown on the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 2004-2005. Justice Mullins is admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court as well as the Connecticut Bar.
Before becoming a judge, Justice Mullins served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Appellate Bureau, in the Division of Criminal Justice. In this position, he argued appeals before the Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Court. Before becoming an appellate prosecutor, Justice Mullins served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Child Protection Division of the Connecticut Attorney General's Office and tried cases before judges in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters.
Justice Mullins is currently a faculty member of the Connecticut Judicial Branch’s Civics Academy and participates in the annual Read Across America event and the Judicial Branch’s Speakers Bureau. He has been a member of the Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court; serves as Chair to the Code of Evidence Oversight Committee, 2018 to present; is a fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and is a member of the Watkinson School Board of Directors. He previously served as a member of the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, the Board of Directors for the Fund for Greater Hartford, as an Executive Committee Member of the Government Division of the Connecticut Bar Association, as a member of the Law Library Advisory Committee and the Task Force to Study the Feasibility of Amending Title 46b to Permit a Person Other Than a Family or Household member to Apply for a Restraining Order.
Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Associate Justice Andrew J. McDonald
Justice Andrew J. McDonald is a Connecticut native. Born in Stamford on March 11, 1966, he attended public schools there before entering college. After graduating from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, he earned a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1991, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law. Justice McDonald also holds honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from the Quinnipiac University School of Law and the Western New England University School of Law.
In January of 2013, Governor Dannel P. Malloy nominated Justice McDonald to be an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and he was confirmed by the Connecticut General Assembly later that month. He was sworn into office on January 24, 2013. In January of 2021, Governor Ned Lamont re-nominated Justice McDonald to the Supreme Court, and later that month he was again confirmed by the General Assembly.
In addition to his service as an associate justice, Justice McDonald has served as the Chairman of the Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission since 2016. He previously served as the Chairman of the Rules Committee of the Superior Court from 2018 to 2024, and as a member of the Connecticut Library Board from 2016 to 2020. Justice McDonald is the senior associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice McDonald served as the General Counsel to the Office of the Governor for the State of Connecticut from 2011 to 2013. In this role, he served as chief legal advisor to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and senior staff of the Executive Branch of government. His responsibilities included providing legal counsel and analysis on all aspects of Executive Branch functions and operations, including its interactions with the federal government and the Judicial and Legislative branches of state government.
From 1991 to 2011, Justice McDonald was engaged in the private practice of law, first as an associate and then as a partner, with the firm of Pullman & Comley, LLC. He was a commercial litigator and handled all stages of litigation in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels.
From January of 1999 to July of 2002, Justice McDonald additionally served as the Director of Legal Affairs and Corporation Counsel for the City of Stamford. In this capacity, he served in the Mayor’s Cabinet and oversaw the administration, supervision and performance of all legal, human resource and labor relations functions of the city, and its boards, commissions and agencies.
Justice McDonald was a State Senator from 2003 to 2011. He served as the Senate Chairman of the Judiciary Committee for all eight years he was in the General Assembly. During periods of his legislative career he also served as the Senate Vice Chairman of the Energy and Technology Committee and as a member of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, the Transportation Committee, the Education Committee and the Regulations Review Committee. From 2005 to 2011, he served as Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate.
Earlier in his career, Justice McDonald served on the Stamford Board of Finance from 1995 to 1999, including serving as the board's Chairman from 1997 to 1999, and as Co-Chair of the Audit Committee from 1995 to 1997. He began his public service career in 1993 as a member of the Stamford Board of Representatives, where he served until 1995.
Justice McDonald and his husband, Charles, live in Hartford.
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Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Associate Justice Gregory T. D'Auria
Justice Gregory T. D'Auria is a Connecticut native. Born on June 24, 1963, Justice D’Auria was nominated by Governor Dannel P. Malloy and sworn in as an Associate Justice on March 8, 2017. Governor Ned Lamont renominated him to the position in 2025. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, he had worked in the Office of the Attorney General for over twenty-three years in a variety of roles. Justice D’Auria argued dozens of appeals in state and federal appellate courts during his years of service with the Office of the Attorney General, and until just before his appointment to the Court had served as Connecticut’s first Solicitor General, appointed to that position by Attorney General George Jepsen in 2011. Prior to that, he headed the Special Litigation and Charities Unit (2010-11), and also served as Associate Attorney General for Litigation (2000-09) and as an Assistant Attorney General (1993-2000). Justice D'Auria was an associate at Shipman & Goodwin from 1989 to 1993, and also served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters from 1988 to 1989.In 2009, he was nominated and inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a distinguished national organization that works to advance the administration of justice and promote the highest standards of professionalism and advocacy in appellate courts. Justice D'Auria was also a founding director of the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society in 2005 and has taught courses at UCONN Law School, most recently on judicial decision-making.
Justice D'Auria graduated from the University of Connecticut, Magna Cum Laude, in 1985, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa, in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law, with high honors, in 1988, where he also served as editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Journal of International Law
Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Associate Justice Steven D. Ecker
Justice Steven D. Ecker was born April 19, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the Midwest. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University, magna cum laude, in 1984, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1987. At law school, Justice Ecker was an editor of the Harvard Law Review from 1985 to 1987, and a member of the winning team in the Ames Moot Court Competition in 1987. Justice Ecker served as a law clerk to Judge Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1987 to 1988.Justice Ecker began practicing law with the New Haven firm Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., where he worked from 1988 to 1994. Between 1994 and 2014, he practiced in Hartford with Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy, L.L.C. Justice Ecker’s private practice consisted primarily of civil litigation in trial and appellate courts, both state and federal. His cases covered a broad range of subject areas, including personal injury and business torts, constitutional law, professional ethics and discipline, family law, commercial law, and employment law. Clients included individuals, business entities, municipalities, public officials, and lawyers and law firms.
Justice Ecker was appointed to the Superior Court bench by Governor Dannel P. Malloy in 2014. He was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 3, 2018.
Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Associate Justice Nora R. Dannehy
Justice Nora R. Dannehy was nominated to the Supreme Court on September 1, 2023, by Governor Ned Lamont. She was confirmed by the Connecticut General Assembly on September 26, 2023, and sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court on the same day.Justice Dannehy is a Connecticut native. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and French from Wellesley College where she was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize in Political Science and she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Following law school, Justice Dannehy served as a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable T. Emmet Clarie of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Justice Dannehy is a former federal prosecutor and held several roles in the Department of Justice and United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut where she worked for over twenty years. She served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Connecticut for several years and General Counsel to the Office of the Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont. Justice Dannehy also worked in the private sector, including as Chief Compliance Officer, Corporate Vice President for United Technologies Corporation.
In addition to her professional roles, Justice Dannehy serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Associate Justice William H. Bright, Jr.
Justice William H. Bright, Jr. was sworn in as an Associate Justice on March 5, 2025, following his nomination to the position on January 27, 2025, by Governor Ned Lamont. He previously served on the Appellate Court -- former Governor Dannel P. Malloy appointed him to that Court on November 1, 2017, and former Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson appointed him as Chief Judge of the Appellate Court on August 1, 2020.Justice Bright also served as a judge of the Superior Court, having been nominated by Governor M. Jodi Rell in January 2008. While a Superior Court Judge, Justice Bright served as the Chief Administrative Judge for the Civil Division and as the Administrative and Presiding Judge for the Tolland/Rockville Judicial District, where he heard civil, criminal and habeas corpus matters.
Justice Bright has served on and chaired a number of Judicial Branch committees, including the Civil Commission, the Client Security Fund Committee, the Civil Jury Instruction Committee, and the Pro Bono Committee. He currently serves as the chair of the Access to Justice Commission and the Rules Committee of the Superior Court and is the co-chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Bar Foundation from 2012-2021.
Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Bright had a distinguished career as a trial lawyer. The Columbia resident was the managing partner of McCarter & English’s Hartford law office and co-chair of the firm’s Business Litigation practice group. He also was a shareholder in Cummings & Lockwood, a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, and chair of the firm’s Litigation practice group. His practice focused on complex commercial litigation matters, including business torts, fraud, intellectual property, franchise disputes and environmental law.
Justice Bright is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1987.
Biographies of Supreme Court Justices
Justice Melanie L. Cradle
Justice Melanie L. Cradle graduated from Adelphi University with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology in 1993 and earned her Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1998.Justice Cradle was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice on August 5, 2026. She previously served as Chief Judge of the Appellate Court, effective March 6, 2025, after being appointed to the position by Chief Justice Raheem L. Mullins. Justice Cradle was appointed a Judge of the Appellate Court by Governor Ned Lamont on July 20, 2020 and her nomination was approved on August 12, 2020. Prior to this appointment and beginning in 2013, Justice Cradle served as a Superior Court judge, where she heard criminal cases in Bridgeport for a year before moving to the New Haven Judicial District in 2014. She was appointed to the position of Presiding Judge of GA 23 in New Haven in 2015, and continued to serve in that capacity until her appointment to the Appellate Court.
Justice Cradle serves on the Criminal Justice Commission and the CBA Rule of Law Committee. Justice Cradle is a member of the Swift's Inn and is a James W. Cooper Fellow with the Connecticut Bar Foundation. Additionally, Justice Cradle is an adjunct professor at the Quinnipiac University School of Law, and a member of the Judicial Branch’s Civics Academy. Justice Cradle previously served as a member of the New Haven Inn of Court, a mentor for newly appointed judges through the Judicial Branch’s Mentor Program, an instructor for the Judicial Branch’s Pre-Bench Orientation Program, and has presented courses to her colleagues at the Connecticut Judges’ Institute. In addition, Justice Cradle served on the Rules Committee of the Superior Court from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2020 and on the Law Library Advisory Committee from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2022.
Prior to Justice Cradle’s appointment, she was Senior Assistant State’s Attorney for the Ansonia/Milford Judicial District. She also served as Assistant State’s Attorney in the New Haven Geographical Area courthouse.
Connecticut Supreme Court Judges (2024–2025)
· Raheem L. Mullins – Chief Justice (appointed/sworn in as Chief Justice starting late 2024/2025, succeeding Richard A. Robinson; previously served as an associate justice)
· Andrew J. McDonald – Senior Associate Justice
· Gregory T. D'Auria – Associate Justice
· Steven D. Ecker – Associate Justice
· Nora R. Dannehy – Associate Justice
· William H. Bright Jr. – Associate Justice (nominated in January 2025 and confirmed in March 2025 to succeed Mullins' associate seat)
· Melanie L. Cradle – Associate Justice
· Richard A. Robinson – Chief Justice (served until his retirement on September 6, 2024)
· Joan K. Alexander – Served on the court and as Chief Court Administrator [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Judges of the Connecticut Appellate Court (2024–2025)
· Melanie L. Cradle (Chief Judge)
· Robert W. Clark
· Hope C. Seeley
· Dawne G. Westbrook
· Robin L. Wilson (appointed March 6, 2025)
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