Lamont to nominate diverse first class of trial judges He is to pick Robert Clark for Appellate, 15 others for Superior Court mark Pazniokas :: ctmirror.org Robert W. Clark, center, with the governor’s chief of staff, Paul Mounds, left, and Doug Dalena, during a debate in March about the governor’s emergency pandemic powers. Clark is to be nominated for the Appellate Court. Gov. Ned Lamont is expected Wednesday to nominate his general counsel, Robert W. Clark, to the Appellate Court and name a racially diverse class of eight women and seven men as his first picks for the trial court.