Eric Dean Coleman (born May 26, 1951) is a Democratic politician in the

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. He served as state senator of Connecticut's 2nd District, representing Bloomfield, Hartford, and Windsor. He served as a state representative from 1983 to 1994, and held the position of Deputy President Pro Tempore in the Connecticut Senate. Coleman is a graduate of

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, and the

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. In 2001, he became the first

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to chair the Judiciary Committee, and now held the chairmanship of the Planning and Development Committee. Coleman resigned from the Senate in 2017, and was subsequently nominated and then confirmed as a Superior Court judge in 2018. On November 30, 2022, Coleman announced that he would run for Mayor of Hartford in

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, following mayor

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's decision to retire. He lost in the Democratic primary to Arunan Arulampalam.

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State Senate Democrats - Eric D. ColemanEric Coleman's bills introducesEric Coleman at Vote Smart
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