Hartford Man Nominated As Connecticut Superior Court Judge

HARTFORD, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont has announced that he is nominating 22 Connecticut residents to fill vacancies as judges on the Connecticut Superior Court. The court currently has 59 vacancies.

One of the nominees is Matthew Weiner, 43, of Hartford. Weiner graduated from Amherst College and obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, according to a statement from Lamont.

He currently serves as a prosecutor and assistant state’s attorney in the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office, where he has spent the last nine years in the Appellate Bureau. He began his legal career clerking for the Honorable Richard N. Palmer, former associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He then spent five years doing civil litigation at McCarter & English, LLP.

This is the second class of Superior Court nominations made by Lamont since he took office in 2019. His first class was made in early 2021 and consisted of 15 judges.

“Our court system works the best when it reflects the diversity, experience, and understanding of the people who live here,” Lamont said in a statement. “These men and women that I’ve selected to become judges not only have the competence, skills, and proficiency to serve the court with integrity, but come from a variety of backgrounds that provide them with the important shared experiences of the people who will come before them. These nominees have the qualifications that meet the high standards the residents of Connecticut deserve on the bench.”