The first woman on the faculty of Yale Law School, she was named to the State Supreme Court in 1978 and became its first female chief justice six years later. By Trip Gabriel Ellen Ash Peters, a ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ...
WEST HARTFORD, CT — A pioneering Connecticut judge who lived in West Hartford and broke gender barriers in the state's judicial system has died. State officials Wednesday announced the death of ...
Ellen Ash Peters, the Yale academic who upended the insular network that had shaped Connecticut’s courts for centuries, becoming the first woman to sit on the state Supreme Court and then serve ...
Ellen Ash Peters, a former chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and a groundbreaking figure among women in the law, has died, colleagues said Tuesday. She was 94. Peters was the first ...
Ellen Ash Peters, the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice, has died HARTFORD, Conn. -- Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote ...
State officials are mourning the passing of legal pioneer Ellen Ash Peters, 94, a West Hartford resident who was the first woman ever appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court and the first ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court’s landmark school ...