Justice Richard N. Palmer is an Associate Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court. He was born on May 27, 1950 in Hartford, CT. He received his Bachelor of Arts Phi Beta Kappa, from Trinity College in Hartford in 1972. He went on to receive the Juris Doctor with high honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law, in 1977.[1]
Following law school, Justice Palmer clerked for Honorable Jon O. Newman. After practicing privately with Shipman and Goodman, Justice Palmer as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, interrupted briefly by a stint in the firm of Chatigny and Palmer (with Federal District Judge Robert Chatigny). In 1991, Justice Palmer served as the United States Attorney in Connecticut, and subsequently became Chief State's Attorney for the State of Connecticut. On March 17, 1993, he was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
On October 10, 2008, Justice Palmer wrote the majority opinion for the Connecticut Supreme Court case Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, granting marriage rights to same-sex couples in Connecticut, striking down a law passed in 2005 granting civil union rights to them.[2]
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