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 ...
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 ruling in 1996, has died.
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 ...
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, 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 ...
FILE, 1975: Known for her landmark ruling in Sheff v. O’Neill, Ellen Ash Peters was Yale Law School’s first female faculty member and in 1984 was appointed Connecticut's first female Chief Justice of ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chief Justice Ellen Ash Peters smiles as she conducts a news conference at the Connecticut Supreme Court ...
You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief ...