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Superior Court Judge Dawne Westbrook, a Black woman with more than a decade on the bench and a background in civil rights work, was nominated Thursday by Gov. Ned Lamont to serve on the Connecticut Appellate Court.
Former federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy offered insight during a Wednesday hearing on her nomination to the Connecticut Supreme Court into her decision to resign from a high-profile investigation of an FBI probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Gov. Ned Lamont called Friday on the state legislature to return to Hartford next week for a special session to confirm Nora Dannehy, his pick to fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court bench.