HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin Jr., of Shelton, to the state Appellate Court.
The Democratic governor announced the pick Thursday, calling Devlin one of the most respected and hardest-working judges in Connecticut. The nomination now goes before state lawmakers.
Devlin would succeed Appellate Court Judge Michael Sheldon, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 for state judges this month. Devlin would turn 70 in April of next year.
Devlin is the presiding criminal court judge in Bridgeport. He became a judge in 1993 after having been nominated by then-Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a Republican who turned independent in his run for governor.
The UConn Law School graduate was a prosecutor on the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force from 1988 to 1993.