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AG of CT

AvanGrid

Brown Rudnick

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Carlton Fields

Carmody

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CT Bar Foundation

CT Division of Public Defender Services

Day Pitney LLP

Eversource

Finn Dixon & Herling

George W. Crawford Black Bar Association

Hinckley Allen

Holland & Knight

Jackson Lewis

McCarter & English

McElroy Deutsch

Murtha Cullina

Neubert Pepe & Monteith

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Pullman & Comley

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Robinson + Cole

Sax Doernberger & Vita

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Shook Hardy & Bacon

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South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut

Treasurer’s Office CT

University of Connecticut Law

Verrill

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Wiggin

Yale Law School

Yale New Haven Health

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Daniel S. Jo

George W. Black Bar Association (Crawford) Representative

Karrol-Ann Brown

Amanda M. Brahm

Rashad K. Glass

Quinnipiac University
Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association (CAPABA) Representative

Jenny Chou

Secretary

Sarah​​​​  R.  Skubas

Of Counsel
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP

Kenneth J. Bartschi

Kelly Fitzpatrick

Valerie M. Ferdon

Zachary Kammerdeiner

President Elect

John H. Mutchler

Claudia Sklar

Calvin K. Woo

VP, General Counsel and Secretary, UIL Holdings
Avangrid

Kenna Hagan

Immediate Past President

Sheldon Poole

Moyahoena N. Ogilvie

Dean and Professor of Law
University of Connecticut
School of Law

Eboni S. Nelson

Tamu Lewis

Jessica Grossarth Kennedy

Assistant Attorney General
Office of Attorney General

Inez Diaz Galloza

Professor of Law
Quinnipiac School of Law

Marilyn J. Ford

Gregory Chase

Kevin Budge

Partner at Murtha Cullina. Al so, Chair of its Immigration Practice Group and Chair of it’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

Dana Bucin

David Bigger

Professor of Law
Western New England University
School of Law

Dr. Bridgette Baldwin

Noble F. Allen

President

Theresa Guertin

Marie Bertrand

Evan Seideman

Ginny Kim

Operations Manager

Brittany N. James serves as Program Manager for LCD. Joining the LCD Team in 2018, Brittany has been an integral part in the expansion of our membership and mission through her facilitation of programming aimed at diversifying Connecticut’s legal profession. For more than a decade, Brittany has dedicated her career to work that benefits the citizens of Connecticut through the legal, business and environmental sectors. With a Master’s Degree in Communication and Information Management, she’s helped facilitate the growth and development of organizations like LCD, as well companies such as EverSource Energy, Connecticut Water and Power, Yankee Gas, and others.

Brittany N. James

Founder & Principal, ExecMommyGroup (EMG)

Joelle A. Murchison combines her passion and expertise in education, equity & inclusion and communications in her work as the Founder & Principal of ExecMommyGroup LLC (EMG), an inclusion and leadership strategic consulting practice.

A career diversity and inclusion champion, Murchison, a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, also currently serves as the Executive Director of The Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity and as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Business.

A native of Queens, and raised in Long Island, NY, Joelle takes her professional and leadership queues from her mother, a trailblazer in her own right, who was the first African American woman manager in the Social Security Administration in the 1970s. Joelle began her career in higher education followed by a stint in the non-profit sector; then transitioning to corporate America – first with United Technologies and then as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at Travelers Insurance. Murchison returned to higher education in 2016 as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Connecticut where she served before launching EMG.

A recipient of numerous awards, Joelle serves as the chair of the board of RE-Center Race and Equity in Education and is a member of the board of directors and chair of the Human Capital and Diversity committee for College Possible, a national nonprofit focused on college access. In 2020, Joelle was elected to serve as a trustee of the Corporation of Brown University, the university’s decision-making body and currently serves as the chair of the Corporation’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion standing committee. 

Additionally in her most demanding yet fulfilling role, Joelle is the mother of four children between the ages of 7 and 18 who are the wind beneath her wings. At her core, she is passionate about encouraging and inspiring all people to reach their highest potential and about creating space for open dialogue to enhance inclusion and understanding.

Joelle A. Murchison

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