Governor Lamont Nominates 15 Connecticut Residents To Fill Vacancies on the Superior Court Written by Office of the Governor.
Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating 15 jurists to fill vacancies as judges on the Connecticut Superior Court.
This is the first class of Superior Court nominations made by Governor Lamont, who took office in January 2019. The most recent class was approved in 2018 under the prior administration. State statutes authorize 185 judges on that court, and 50 of those positions are currently vacant.
“I am proud today to announce one of the most diverse classes of judicial nominations in our state’s history,”
Tim Kaine Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: St. Paul, Minnesota
Birth name: Timothy Michael Kaine
Father: Albert Alexander Kaine Jr., ironworker
Mother: Mary Kathleen (Burns) Kaine, teacher
Marriage: Anne Holton (1984-present)
Education: University of Missouri, B.A., 1979; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1983
Religion: Roman Catholic
Other Facts
Practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, for 17 years, representing people who were denied fair housing opportunities because of race or disability.
Was the first Virginia governor since Thomas Jefferson to be inaugurated at the Colonial Capital in Williamsburg.
Fluent in Spanish. He took a year off from Harvard to help Jesuit missionaries run a one-room technical school in Honduras.
The pratice is located in Wilmington’s Soda Pop District.
Wilmington StarNews
Wilmington attorneys Devlin Horton and Nick Mendez have established Horton & Mendez PLLC, a Wilmington law practice focused on personal injury and wrongful death.
Having worked together for a large firm representing insurance companies, the partners bring insight and understanding to their clients’ cases as to how insurance companies investigate, evaluate and defend claims.
The practice opened Jan. 11 and is located at 705 Princess St. in Wilmington’s Soda Pop District.
The Wilmington firm represents clients injured through car, truck or boating accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home injury or injuries from birth, workers’ compensation, product liability, catastrophic, traumatic or spinal cord injuries, as well as business litigation and bad faith claims from insurance companies.
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, who is overseeing one of the nation’s largest civil cases, is joining a judicial trend that will affect federal courts for decades.