Melissa M. Mack ’00 has joined Shipman & Goodwin LLP as a partner in the firm’s Tax and Employee Benefits Practice Group. Melissa previously practiced at Robinson & Cole before launching her own law practice, Mack Law LLC, in 2014.

The Norwalk High School Alumni Association will add Judge Omar Williams ’02 of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to its Wall of Honor at a ceremony on May 15. The Wall of Honor recognizes graduates for their professional accomplishments and integrity. Williams graduated from the high school in 1994.

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.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated Judge Hope C. Seeley ’89, to the Connecticut Appellate Court. Seeley has served as a Superior Court judge since 2013 and is currently an assistant administrative judge for the Judicial District of Hartford and the presiding criminal judge. Before her appointment to the bench, she worked in private practice on criminal cases at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at the UConn School of Law.

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.