Ellen Burns (Connecticut)
Ellen Bree Burns was an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Burns joined the court in 1978, after an appointment from Jimmy Carter (D). Burns retired from full-time service, assuming senior status, on September 1, 1992. Her service officially ended on June 3, 2019, when she died.[1]
Burns served as the chief judge of the District of Connecticut from 1988 to 1992.[1]
Burns was a judge on the Connecticut Superior Court from 1976 to 1978.[1]
Education
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Burns received a bachelor's degree from the Albertus Magnus College in 1944 and a LL.B. from the Yale Law School in 1947.[1]
Professional career
Burns served as a special assistant to the Commission to Revise the Connecticut General Statutes for the Legislature of the State of Connecticut from 1947 to 1948, before serving as an attorney for the Legislative Legal Services division for the State of Connecticut until 1973. Burns was appointed to serve as a judge of the Circuit Court of Connecticut from 1973 to 1974, and also served as a judge on the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas from 1974 to 1976. Burns served as a judge for the Superior Court of Connecticut from 1976 to 1978.[1]
Judicial nominations and appointments
District of Connecticut
Burns was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut by President Jimmy Carter (D) on February 15, 1978, to a seat vacated by Mosher Blumenfeld. Burns was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 17, 1978, and received commission the next day. From 1988 to 1992, Burns served as the chief judge of the court and assumed senior status on September 1, 1992.[1] Burns was succeeded in this position by Alvin Thompson.[2] Her service officially ended on June 3, 2019, when she died.[1]
See also
- United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
- United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
External links
Footnotes
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Mosher Blumenfeld |
District of Connecticut 1978–1992 Seat #3 |
Succeeded by: Alvin Thompson
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| 1977 |
Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron | ||
| 1978 |
Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler | ||
| 1979 |
Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel | ||
| 1980 |
Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams | ||
| 1981 | |||
Federal courts:
Second Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Connecticut • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Connecticut
State courts:
Connecticut Supreme Court • Connecticut Appellate Court • Connecticut Superior Court • Connecticut Probate Courts
State resources:
Courts in Connecticut • Connecticut judicial elections • Judicial selection in Connecticut
