Sean Connelly (judge)

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Sean Connelly

Colorado Court of Appeals
In office July 1, 2008 – current
Nominated by	Bill Ritter

Born	August 23, 1958 Glen Cove, New York

The Honorable Sean Connelly (born in Glen Cove, New York on August 23, 1958) is a Judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals. Connelly was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter on May 1, 2008.^[1] Previously, Mr. Connelly was a member of the U.S. Department of Justice trial team and the lead appellate prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing cases.

1 Career
2 Education
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Career

Judge Connelly handled some of the most important litigation of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990 to 2002. During his 12 years at the U.S. Department of Justice, Connelly served as a Special Attorney to United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and Janet Reno, as Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office Appellate Section, and as a Criminal Division trial attorney.^[2]

As Special Attorney to the Attorney General, Mr. Connelly was a member of the trial team and was the lead appellate prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing cases. Those prosecutions resulted in the separate convictions of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which resulted in 168 deaths.^[3] Mr. Connelly received the Exceptional Service Award from United States Attorney Janet Reno (the highest award given by the U.S. Department of Justice) in 1998 for his role in these prosecutions.^[4]

Following the U.S. Department of Justice, Connelly worked at Reilly Pozner & Connelly LLP in Denver from 2002 to 2008. He previously worked in private practice from 1984 to 1990, and as a judicial law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1983 to 1984.^[5]

[edit] Education

Connelly received his bachelor's degree from Fairfield University in 1980 and his law degree from the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America in 1983 where he was a Comments Editor for the Law Review and received the Faculty Award for the highest ranking law student.^[6]