Judge Nina Elgo named the 2015 Norwich Native Daughter Award Honoree. She was the 2014 recipient of the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association Impact Award; and in 2013, Judge Elgo was the recipient of the Edwin Archer Randolph Diversity Award. As the first Asian Pacific American judge in Connecticut, Judge Elgo was honored in 2006 by the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Women’s Caucus as a “Trailblazer in the Connecticut Judiciary.” She was also a recipient of the 2007 Connecticut Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section Diversity Award.
Bachelor of Arts from Connecticut College in 1984 and her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1990
She is a member of the Swift’s Inn, a Bencher Emeritus member of the Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court and a James W. Cooper Fellow and member of the Education and Program Committee of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. She was also active with the Connecticut-Pskov Russian-American Rule of Law Consortium.
Prior to her appointment to the Appellate Court, Judge Nina Elgo served as a Superior Court judge since May 5, 2004. In this role, she heard civil matters in the Hartford Judicial District and also served as presiding judge for the Child Protection Session in the Middlesex Judicial District. Additionally, she presided over criminal, juvenile and habeas corpus cases in the Hartford, Tolland and New Haven judicial districts.
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