{"id":495382,"date":"2010-03-31T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75078"},"modified":"2010-03-31T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:22:15","slug":"rell-nominates-judge-stuart-bear-to-states-appellate-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/495382","title":{"rendered":"Rell Nominates Judge Stuart Bear To State&#8217;s Appellate Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Wednesday that she is nominating Superior Judge Stuart D. Bear of West Hartford to Connecticut&#8217;s Appellate Court, to replace retiring Chief Appellate Judge Joseph P. Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>Bear, 65, a Republican, has served since 2003 on the Superior Court bench in Middletown. Bear received his law degree cum laude from Harvard in 1968. He worked previously at Zeldes, Needle &amp; Cooper from 1973 to 2003 and at the New Haven Legal Assistance Foundation from 1968 to 1973.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;Judge Bear will make an outstanding addition to the Appellate Court,&#8221; Governor Rell said in a press release. &#8220;His extensive experience as an attorney and his years on our Superior Court bench have given him a depth of knowledge and a strong sense of the law&#8217;s role in society &#8211; key strengths that will enable him to deal fairly and wisely with the range of issues that come before the appeals court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rell said she looks forward to Bear&#8217;s confirmation by the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn notified Governor Rell this month that he intends to take &#8220;senior status.&#8221; Chief Justice Chase Rodgers appointed Appellate Judge Alexandra D. DiPentima to replace Judge Flynn as head of the Appellate Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Wednesday that she is nominating Superior Judge Stuart D. Bear of West Hartford to Connecticut&#8217;s Appellate Court, to replace retiring Chief Appellate Judge Joseph P. Flynn. Bear, 65, a Republican, has served since 2003 on the Superior Court bench in Middletown. Bear received his law degree cum laude from Harvard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}