Howard B. Brown Jr. ’73, former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Banking, recently announced his formal retirement from the practice of law. After graduating from law school, Brown worked at The Hartford Insurance Group, where he was the first attorney of color to be hired by the company and where he reached the position of associate counsel. He then served as deputy banking commissioner before becoming commissioner in 1985. He was elected chair of the Federal Bank Legislation Committee by the national organization of bank regulators and was honored at the White House. He subsequently worked as a vice president of Kidder Peabody, co-founded the investment banking firm Community Reinvestment Associates, and served as senior counsel with Bush & Miller in Atlanta. He also taught as an adjunct professor of Business Law at Morehouse College, his alma mater.

Marc Lombardi ’02 has joined Shipman & Goodwin as a partner and leader of the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation practice group. Lombardi more than 20 years’s experience in health care, technology and data innovation, most recently serving as deputy general counsel at Yale New Haven Health System.

Stanley M. Lessler ’62, an attorney and real estate developer who lived in Stratford, died April 21, 2022. Read his obituary.

Wendy Taylor Linscott ’79, a partner in Lamme and Linscott in Great Barrington, Mass., died April 19, 2022. Read her obituary.

Seven graduates of the UConn School of Law were nominated to the Connecticut Supreme Court by Gov. Ned Lamont on April 13, 2022. They are Scott R. Chadwick ’87, a probate judge and litigator; Assistant Connecticut Attorney General Thamar Esperance-Smith ’11; Assistant Connecticut Attorney General Josephine S. Graff ’01; New Britain State’s Attorney Brian W. Preleski ’91; Charles M. Stango ’95, the supervisory assistant state’s attorney in Milford; Greater Hartford Legal Aid attorney Cecil J. Thomas ’06; and David L. Zagaja ’93, supervisory assistant state’s attorney.

Daniel Krisch ’99 has been elected to the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, which recognizes outstanding appellate lawyers and promotes the improvement of appellate advocacy and the administration of the appellate courts.  Krisch is a partner at the law firm of Halloran Sage, where he chairs the Appellate Law and Advocacy Practice Group.

David M. Teed ’79, a retired Connecticut assistant attorney general, died on March 30, 2022. Read his obituary.

Joseph J. Tooher Jr. ’55, a well-known Stamford attorney and community leader, died on Friday, April 1, 2022. Read his obituary.

Kelly A. Scott ’11, who practices family law with Pullman & Comley, has been named a 2022 New Leader in the Law by the Connecticut Law Tribune. She is past co-chair of the Family Law Committee and current chair of the Professional Responsibility Committee for the Connecticut Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Section Executive Committee. Scott will be honored at the Connecticut Legal Awards on May 11.

The Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission has appointed David R. Shannon ’98 state’s attorney for the Judicial District of Litchfield. Shannon began working for the Division of Criminal Justice in 1998 as a legal intern in the New Haven State’s Attorney’s Office. He subsequently served as an assistant state’s attorney in the Danbury Judicial District and the Judicial District of Litchfield, where he was promoted to supervisory assistant state’s attorney in 2019.