Farmington-Burlington Judge Evelyn Daly elected as an officer of the CT Probate Assembly

The Connecticut Probate Assembly elected Judge Evelyn M. Daly of Farmington as recording secretary during the assembly’s annual meeting on April 7 at the Supreme Court in Hartford.

“I am honored to have the opportunity to serve,” Judge Daly said.

A member of the Probate Assembly since her election in 2006 as judge of the Farmington Probate Court, now the Farmington-Burlington Probate Court, Judge Daly serves on the assembly’s executive, legislative and ethics committees. She has been an attorney for more than 30 years and is a member of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Bars and the U.S. District Court 1st Circuit.

Judge Daly previously served as counsel to Connecticut’s House of Representatives and as senior counsel for Atena Life & Casualty Insurance Company. She began her career at the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.

Her affiliations with local and statewide educational, charitable and civic organizations are many. She was an adjunct professor of political science at Central Connecticut State University and still teaches an occasional class at institutions in Connecticut. In Farmington, she has been a docent at the Hill-Stead Museum for 18 years, and is a board member of the Stanley-Whitman House and trustee of the Farmington Village Green and Library Association. She is a former board member of the Farmington Public Schools Foundation and The Bushnell.

Judge Daly is proud of her court’s historical significance; the Farmington court was established in 1769, 114 years before the Probate Assembly informally organized in 1883.

Today, the assembly comprises the 54 judges who preside over the Probate Courts. The state legislature officially recognized the assembly in 1941. Its purpose is to seek to improve the administration of justice and achieve uniform practice and procedures throughout the Probate Courts.