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Ellen Bree Burns, First Federal Female Judge In CT, Dies Ellen Bree Burns, First Federal Female Judge In CT, Dies
Ellen Bree Burns, First Federal Female Judge In CT, Dies Retired U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns who was the first female judge in Connecticut, died Monday, June 3 in New Haven. She was 95. A resident of Hamden most of her life, she was a graduate of Albertus Magnus College and Yale Law School. After 25 years in the state's Legislative Commissioners' Office, she had a long career as a state and federal judge, named Connecticut's first female Superior Court Judge in 1974, and the first female Federal Judge in the state in 1978. She was appointed by President Jimmy Carter. Burns retired in 2015 at the age of 91. In an interview on the Un…

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