Glastonbury's Dannehy Confirmed For Connecticut Supreme Court

GLASTONBURY, CT — The state General Assembly Tuesday confirmed Gov. Ned Lamont's nomination of Glastonbury's Nora Dannehy to the Connecticut Supreme Court.

The votes were 31-2 in the Senate and 120-18 in the House of Representatives.

Born in Willimantic, Dannehy, 62, is well-known in Connecticut and throughout the country as what Lamont termed "an advocate for the public's interests and clean government."

From 1991 to 2010, she served in several roles with the U.S. Department of Justice, including becoming the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, the state's top federal prosecutor.

She specialized in the prosecution of complex white collar and public corruption cases, including cases that lead to the convictions of several prominent public officials like Gov. John G. Rowland, State Treasurer Paul J. Silvester, and New Haven Police Department Lieutenant William "Billy" White.

She also supervised several national investigations.

In 2010, Dannehy was appointed deputy attorney general for the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Connecticut in a role that required her to supervise the office's day-to-day litigation efforts.

From 2013 until 2019, she served as the Associate General Counsel for Global Ethics and Compliance for United Technologies Corp.

In 2019, she was back in the public sector as counsel to the U.S. Attorney, and then as general counsel to Lamont from 2021 until January of 2023.

Dannehy had been in private practice with the Hartford-based firm of Cowdery, Murphy, Dannehy & Healy, where she conducted internal and independent investigations for public and private entities.