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04/26/2018
Gov. Malloy Nominates Two Connecticut Residents to Fill Judicial Vacancies on the Superior Court
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating two state residents to fill vacancies for judgeships on the Connecticut Superior Court. Additional retirements and other changes in recent days allow the Malloy administration to make these supplemental nominations while still maintaining the Governor’s original stated commitment to leave 21 vacancies on the Superior Court by the end of his term in January 2019. Currently, the number of Superior Court judges serving in the Judicial Branch is at its lowest point in more than a decade.
The nominations announced today include:
- Norma I. Sánchez-Figueroa of South Windsor: Sánchez-Figueroa is a Family Support Magistrate with the State of Connecticut’s Judicial Branch, where she has served since 2011. Prior to that, she served in private practice with law firms in 1994 to 1995, and then as the solo practitioner and managing attorney of the Law Office of Norma I. Sánchez-Figueroa from 1995 to 2011. She also served as a litigation paralegal with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 1991 to 1994, and as a law clerk to justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts from 1988 to 1990. She is a graduate of Brandeis University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, and Boston College Law School, where she received her Juris Doctor degree.
- Jennifer Macierowski of Windsor: Macierowski is the Chief Legal Counsel and Director of Research and Policy for the Connecticut General Assembly’s Senate Republican Caucus, where she has worked since 1999. In this capacity, she has been responsible for developing, negotiating, and drafting legislation on a broad range of topics; managing the caucus’s legal, research, and policy departments; and advising the Senate Republican President Pro Tempore on a range of legal issues. Prior to her service with the state, she was an associate with the firms of Halloran & Sage and Wiggin & Dana. Macierowski is a member of the Connecticut Health Information Technology Advisory Council, the State Leaders Program of the National Association of State Health Policy, and is the chair of the Town of Windsor’s Board of Ethics. She is a graduate of Amherst College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she received her Juris Doctor degree.
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