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Judge Robin L. Wilson
January 27, 2025
Lamont nominates new CT Supreme Court justice, other judges
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Judge William H. Bright Jr.
Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday morning announced that he has nominated more than a dozen jurists to serve as judges in Connecticut courts, including a new member of the state Supreme Court.
“Nominating judges to serve on our courts is one of the most important responsibilities of a governor, especially because judges are the final authority on the interpretation of the law and the constitution, and for ensuring that justice is administered fairly and without prejudice,” Lamont said.
To the state Supreme Court, Lamont has nominated William H. Bright as an associate justice. Bright is currently the chief judge of the Appellate Court.
He has been a partner with the law firms McCarter and English as well as Cummings and Lockwood. He is a graduate of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago Law School.
Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson retired from the state Supreme Court last year.
Lamont also appointed 13 Superior Court judges, including former Senate Minority Leader Kevin C. Kelly, and Rep. Michael C. D’Agostino, who served as the House chair of the General Law Committee.
Kelly, 65, of Stratford, is an attorney and owner of Kevin Kelly and Associates. D’Agostino, 53, of Hamden, is a partner at Morgan Lewis and Bockius.
Lamont also nominated Robin L. Wilson as a judge of the Appellate Court.
Wilson has served as a Superior Court judge for more than two decades. She is assigned to the Waterbury Complex Litigation Docket and has also been an administrative law judge on the Workers’ Compensation Commission and worked as an assistant attorney general in Connecticut.
Wilson received degrees from Connecticut College, Northeastern University School of Law and New York University School of Law.
The other Superior Court judge nominees are:
- David G. Bothwell, 55, of Fairfield, legal counsel and legislative liaison to the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles.
- Tracie C. Brown, 53, of Windsor, chief operating officer for the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles.
- Jesse Giddings, 43, of North Haven, a supervisory assistant state’s attorney in the Hartford State’s Attorney Office.
- Diana M. Gomez, 42, of Easton, an assistant public defender in the Ansonia-Milford Judicial District
- Donald R. Green, 58, of Meriden, a family support magistrate.
- Kaitlin A. Halloran, 41, of West Hartford, co-founder of Halloran & Halloran, which merged with BBB Attorneys in 2021.
- Angeline Ioannou, 55, of West Hartford, managing partner of the Hartford office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith.
- Daniel Shapiro, 58, of Westbrook, a deputy associate attorney general and chief of health and education for the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General.
- Kevin Shea, 58, of Madison, a partner with Clendenen and Shea LLC in New Haven.
- Latonia C. Williams, 41, of West Hartford, a partner at Shipman and Goodwin. Also, she serves on the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Client Security Fund Committee and on the board of directors for Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc.
- Yonatan Zamir, 48, of Woodbridge, a staff attorney at New Haven Legal Assistance Association. He also co-teaches the Reentry Clinic at Yale Law School.
In addition, Lamont nominated two family support magistrates:
Benedict R. Daigle, 43, of Cromwell, an assistant public defender, legislative/family magistrate for the Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services.
- LeeAnn Neal, 39, of Waterbury, an assistant attorney general in the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General
- Lamont also nominated administrative law judges to the Workers’ Compensation Commission:
- Michael L. Anderson, 54, of North Stonington, a trial lawyer with Anderson Trial Lawyers in Norwich and chairman of the North Stonington Board of Finance.
- Christine Conley, 42, of Groton, an attorney with McGann, Bartlett and Brown. From 2017 to 2025, she served the 40th Assembly District of Groton and New London in the Connecticut House of Representatives.
- Colette Griffin, 66, of Newtown, a partner with Strunk Dodge Aiken Zovas.
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