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Joette Katz is an American attorney who is a partner at the law firm,Shipman &Goodwin LLP. She was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court,where she also served as the administrative judge for the state appellate system,and as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. In various roles during her career she has had an impact on issues of state and national importance,such as:criminal law,capital punishment,civil rights and the right to education,eminent domain,same-sex marriage,LGBTQ rights,sexual assault,sex trafficking,and helping children in state care move from institutions to families.
Chase T. Rogers was the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court,the second woman to serve in this capacity. She announced on November 2,2017,that she would retire in February 2018. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Boston University School of Law. Rogers is a Connecticut native. She was nominated by Governor M. Jodi Rell and sworn in April 25,2007,by the first female Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court,Ellen Ash Peters. Prior to her nomination,Rogers served in the appellate court of Connecticut from April 2006 to April 2007. Prior to serving on the appellate court,she served as a superior court judge beginning in 1998. Her assignments included serving as the presiding judge for juvenile matters in Bridgeport and being assigned to the regional Child Protection Session in Middletown. Between 2001 and 2005,she was assigned to the Complex Litigation Docket in Stamford,and from 2005 to 2006 she served as the presiding judge for civil matters in the Stamford-Norwalk district. Before becoming a judge,she practiced law for 14 years at Cummings &Lockwood in Stamford,Connecticut. She has two children,a son and a daughter. She was married to Edward Vincent O'Hanlan,a lawyer,on December 21,1985.
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