Trump Nominates Two CT Residents As Federal Judges

Two Connecticut residents have been named in a list of federal judicial nominees by President Donald Trump, multiple sources reported. Connecticut federal prosecutor William Nardini, who leads the criminal division of the state’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, has been nominated for a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Courthouse News Service reported.

Nardini also spent time as a Department of Justice attaché at the U.S. embassy in Rome during the Obama administration.

Nardini also served as a former clerk to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He was involved in prosecuting H. James Pickerstein, a former Connecticut U.S. attorney who pleaded guilty to stealing $600,000 from a mobster he represented, according to Courthouse News Service.

Barbara Bailey Jongbloed, who is currently a judge on the New London District Superior Court, has been nominated as a judge for the Connecticut U.S. District Court, The Danbury News-Times reported.

Jongbloed became a judge in 2000. Previously she was an assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the criminal division in the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to the News-Times.