Ellen Ash Peters
Ellen Peters | |
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Chief Justice of the Ella Tambussi Grasso | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ellen Asch[1] March 21, 1930 Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany |
Died | April 17, 2024 West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 94)
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Yale University |
Ellen Ash Peters (March 21, 1930 – April 17, 2024) was an American lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the
Early life and education
Ellen Ash was born in Berlin on March 21, 1930; her father was Jewish and a lawyer, and her grandfather was also a lawyer.[2]
Her family fled the
Career
Peters
Peters became assistant professor at Yale Law School in 1956 and full professor in 1964 before being named Southmayd Professor of Law, a post she held from 1975 to 1978, when Governor
After Peters was appointed to the bench, she remained an adjunct professor until being appointed
After stepping down from the Supreme Court of Connecticut, Peters remained active on the bench, sitting from 2000 to 2014 as a judge trial referee on the Connecticut Appellate Court in Hartford.[3][8]
Peters was a visiting professor of law at the University of Connecticut Law School.[3][4]
Notable decisions
Memberships, awards and honors
Peters was an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation and a former member of the board of managers of Swarthmore College.[4] She was a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, the American Philosophical Society,[9] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]
Peters was the first recipient of the Ella T. Grasso Distinguished Service Medal, and received a number of other awards, including the Connecticut Trial Lawyers' Association Judiciary Award, the Yale Law School Distinguished Service Medal, the Hartford College for Women's Pioneer Woman Award, and the National Center for State Courts' Warren E. Burger Award (2002).[7] She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Connecticut in 1992.[10]
March 21, 2015, was declared "Ellen Ash Peters Day" in Connecticut by Governor
Personal life and death
Peters's first marriage was to Robert Peters, a psychiatrist. They had three children and subsequently divorced.[2]
Peters then married Phillip I. Blumberg, the former dean of the University of Connecticut Law School.[2] The couple lived in West Hartford.[7][8]
Blumberg died in 2021. Peters died in West Hartford, Connecticut on April 17, 2024, at the age of 94.[1][13][14]
Sources
- Remarks by Justice Peters upon her retirement
- Peters receives award from National Center for State Courts
See also
References
- ^ a b Gabriel, Trip (April 20, 2024). "Ellen Ash Peters, Pioneer on the Connecticut Bench, Dies at 94". The New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g Richard L. Madden, Nominee for Chief Judge, New York Times (November 14, 1984).
- ^ a b c Ellen Ash Peters (LL.B. 1954), Yale Law Women at Yale Law School (accessed January 11, 2016).
- ^ University of Connecticut Law School(accessed January 11, 2016).
- ^ Judith Ann Warner, Women and Crime: A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO, 2012), p. 150.
- ^ Doris Weatherford, Women in American Politics: History and Milestones (Vol. 1: CQ Press, 2012), p. 364.
- ^ a b c d Ellen Ash Peters, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (accessed January 11, 2016).
- ^ a b Lauren Sievert, Former Supreme Court chief justice still going strong at appellate court, West Hartford News (March 16, 2012).
- ^ "APS Member History".
- ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients - 1990s". University of Connecticut. 29 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ^ March 21 Declared Ellen Ash Peters Day, University of Connecticut School of Law]
- ^ March 21, 2015, Declared Ellen Ash Peters '54 Day in Connecticut by Governor Malloy, Yale Law School].
- ^ Collins, Dave (April 17, 2024). "Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Associated Press.
- ^ Mahony, Edmund H. (April 17, 2024). "Former CT Chief Justice Ellen Ash Peters, pioneer among women in law, dies". Hartford Courant. Retrieved April 17, 2024.