Sandra Slack Glover

Last updated
Sandra Slack Glover
Personal details
Born1970or1971(age 52–53) [1]
Education

Sandra Slack Glover (born 1970/1971) is an American lawyer from Washington D.C. who is a former nominee to serve as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Contents

Education

Glover received a Bachelor of Arts with high distinction in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 1992, a Master of Arts in political science from Duke University in 1993, and a Juris Doctor with highest honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1997, [2] where she served as articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review . [1]

Career

After graduating law school, Glover served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. She then served as an appellate attorney at the Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice. She moved to Connecticut in 2002 and was an associate at Wiggin & Dana. In 2004, she joined the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Connecticut, serving as Chief of the Appellate Unit since 2010. [1] She has been a member of the Connecticut Bar Association since 2003. [3] [4]

Nomination to Connecticut Supreme Court

On April 25, 2023, Governor Ned Lamont nominated Glover to be an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court to the seat vacated by Justice Maria Araújo Kahn, who was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [1]

During her confirmation hearing, she was questioned by the state Judiciary Committee on her support of Amy Coney Barrett, who was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017 and later elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States in 2020, because Barrett voted with the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson to overturn Roe v. Wade. [5] [6] [7] Glover stated, during her confirmation hearing, that she would not have signed a 2017 letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting Barrett’s nomination if she knew Barrett would later vote to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion protections. [8]

On May 19, 2023, it was announced that she is withdrawing her name from consideration because of the opposition over her past support of Amy Coney Barrett. [9] [10]

Personal life

Glover lives in Guilford, Connecticut. [11]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ned Lamont</span> Governor of Connecticut since 2019

Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving since January 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989 and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006, losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman.

Nora Riordan Dannehy is an American attorney serving as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since September 2023. She was previously appointed acting United States attorney for the District of Connecticut on April 4, 2008. She was the first woman to hold the office, which was established in 1789.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara Lagoa</span> American judge (born 1967)

Barbara Lagoa is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to becoming a federal judge, she was the first Latina and Cuban American woman appointed to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Myra Consetta Selby is an Indiana attorney in private practice and is a former nominee to be a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Her nomination was denied a hearing by the Republican-majority Senate and subsequently expired on January 3, 2017. She served as an associate justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1995 to 1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election</span>

The 2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut, concurrently with the election of Connecticut's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. This race's Democratic margin of victory was the closest to the national average of 3.1 points.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy Coney Barrett</span> US Supreme Court justice since 2020 (born 1972)

Amy Vivian Coney Barrett is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fifth woman to serve on the court, she was nominated by President Donald Trump and has served since October 27, 2020. Barrett was a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 to 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard A. Robinson</span> American judge (born 1957)

Richard A. Robinson is an American lawyer and judge, who has served as chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2018, and previously as an associate justice from 2013 to 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gregory D'Auria</span> American judge (born 1963)

Gregory Thomas D'Auria is an American lawyer and judge who has served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2017. He previously was Solicitor General of Connecticut.

Raheem L. Mullins is an American lawyer and judge who has served as an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maria Araújo Kahn</span> American judge (born 1964)

Maria Araújo Kahn is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She previously served as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 2017 to 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott L. Kafker</span> American judge (born 1959)

Scott Lewis Kafker is an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Christine Elyse Keller is an American lawyer and judge from Connecticut. She is a Senior Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Jillian Marie Gilchrest is an American politician who is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 18th district in Hartford County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election</span> Election for Governor of Connecticut

The 2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Connecticut. Incumbent Democratic Governor Ned Lamont ran for re-election to a second term in office. The race simultaneously took place with the election to the state's Class III Senate seat. This election featured a rematch of the previous 2018 gubernatorial election, pitting Lamont against Republican Bob Stefanowski, who he previously defeated by 3.2% of the vote. This time Lamont won re-election by a wider margin, becoming the first Democrat to win a gubernatorial election by more than 5 points in the state since 1986. This is the first time since 1994 that Tolland County voted Democratic in a gubernatorial election.

Robert J. Devlin Jr. is a former Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court and former Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court. He was nominated to the Appellate court by Governor Ned Lamont and began his term on May 15, 2019. Devlin retired in April 2020, after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Joan Kulowski Alexander is an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She served as a judge the Connecticut Appellate Court from 2020 to 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination</span> United States Supreme Court nomination

On September 26, 2020, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill in the vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At the time of her nomination, Barrett was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Illinois. The Senate received word from the president on September 29.

Daniel J. Fox is an American politician and lawyer who is a judge in the Danbury district of the Connecticut Superior Courtas of September 2023. Previously he served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2011 to 2022 as a State Representative from the 148th District, which encompasses the East Side of Stamford, Connecticut.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Treneé McGee</span> American politician

Treneé McGee is an American Democratic Party politician currently serving as the youngest female member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 116th district, which includes parts of the cities of New Haven and West Haven, since 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">House Bill 5414</span> Abortion-rights law in U.S. state of Connecticut

House Bill 5414, passed by the Connecticut General Assembly and signed into law by that U.S. state's Governor, Ned Lamont, on May 5, 2022, as the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act, is intended to protect abortion in the state and expand the procedure's availability. Several of its provisions are responses to the Texas Heartbeat Act, passed in late 2021 and since emulated by two other states, that would prevent enforcement in Connecticut of judgements obtained by lawsuits filed under those laws against abortion providers, patients and those who facilitate them. It also allows more non-physician providers to perform certain types of abortions, codifying a past legal opinion. The law took effect July 1.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Governor Lamont Nominates Sandra Slack Glover to the Connecticut Supreme Court" (Press release). Office of the Governor. April 25, 2023. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Sandra Slack Glover Profile | New Haven, CT Lawyer | Martindale.com". www.martindale.com. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Sandra Slack Glover". lawyers.justia.com. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  4. ↑ Pazniokas, Mark (April 26, 2023). "Sandra Slack Glover nominated to CT Supreme Court by Gov. Ned Lamont". CT Insider. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  5. ↑ Collins, Dave. "Connecticut High Court Nominee Regrets Supporting Amy Coney Barrett". huffpost.com. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  6. ↑ Dixon, Ken (May 15, 2023). "Ned Lamont's Supreme Court nominee faces criticism over past support for Amy Coney Barrett". ctinsider.com. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  7. ↑ Pazniokas, Mark (May 15, 2023). "Sandra Slack Glover, picked for CT Supreme Court, quizzed on Roe". ctmirror.org. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  8. ↑ Collins, Dave (May 15, 2023). "Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett". www.apnews.com. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  9. ↑ Mangan, Dan (May 19, 2023). "Abortion fallout: Connecticut Supreme Court pick drops out due to Amy Coney Barrett letter". CNBC. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  10. ↑ Pazniokas, Mark (May 19, 2023). "Sandra Slack Glover withdraws as CT Supreme Court nominee". ctpublic.org. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  11. ↑ Flores, Saul (April 25, 2023). "Lamont Nominates Guilford Resident Sandra Glover To CT Supreme Court". Guilford, CT Patch. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.