Gregory Thomas D'Auria (born June 24, 1963) is an American lawyer and judge who has served as an associate justice of the

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since 2017. He previously was Solicitor General of Connecticut. Born and raised in

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, D'Auria completed a bachelor's degree at the

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in 1985, with a major in

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. He completed a J.D. degree in 1988 at the

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, where he was editor-in-chief of the '' Connecticut Journal of International Law''. D'Auria clerked for

Chief Justice Ellen Ash Peters in 1988–1989, and then worked for four years as an

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at the law firm Shipman & Goodwin. D'Auria was hired by

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in 1993, and worked in the Attorney General's Office until 2011. He was an Assistant Attorney General in 1993–2000, served as Associate Attorney General for Litigation until 2009, and then headed the Special Litigation and Charities Unit.

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appointed D'Auria as Solicitor General of

in 2011. In this job, D'Auria argued more than 90 cases on behalf of the state before the

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and

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Judicial career

On February 1, 2017, D'Auria was nominated by Governor

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to a seat on the

, to replace retired associate justice Peter T. Zarella. D'Auria was unanimously approved by the judiciary committee of the

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on February 17, and was unanimously confirmed by the

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as a whole on March 8, 2017. D'Auria was sworn in by

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Malloy as an associate justice on April 10, 2017, to an eight-year term which expires in 2025.

References

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