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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — For the first time, a Black woman has been appointed as Connecticut’s chief public defender. TaShun The post TaShun Bowden-Lewis makes history as Connecticut’s new top ...
An oversight commission fired Connecticut's top public defender on Tuesday after having accused her of a range of misconduct, including leveling unfounded racism allegations, mistreating employees ...
Kahn clerked for Judge Peter Collins Dorsey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut from 1989 to 1991 before serving as a public defender for the State of Connecticut from 1991 to 1993. [5] From 1993 to 1997, Kahn was a staff attorney at the Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Disabilities. [6]
First female (trial court/circuit court): JoAnne Kulawiz in 1972 [12] [13] First female (Superior Court of Connecticut): Ellen Bree Burns (1947) in 1976 [14] First female (Connecticut Supreme Court): Ellen Ash Peters (1954) in 1978 [15] First female (Colorado Court of Appeals/Chief Judge): Antoinette Dupont [13]
From 2014 to 2019, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. From 2019 to 2022, she served as an associate attorney general in the Connecticut Attorney General's Office and as chief of the division of enforcement and public protection from 2021 to 2022.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's top public defender fought to keep her job Tuesday as an oversight commission began considering whether to fire her for a range of alleged misconduct, including hurling unfounded accusations of racism against people who disagreed with her and improperly accessing the emails of staff and the commission chairman.
Connecticut's top public defender could be fired on Tuesday, when an oversight panel is expected to decide a punishment for what it calls serious misconduct. Bowden-Lewis, the state's first Black ...
From 1978 to 1981 she was as an assistant public defender in the appellate unit of the office of the Chief Public Defender in New Haven, Connecticut. From 1981 to 1983 she was an assistant public defender in the trial unit in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She served as Chief of Legal Services for the Office of the Chief Public Defender from 1983 to ...