Janet Bond Arterton
U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
Judge Arterton was nominated by President Bill Clinton, confirmed by the United States Senate, and entered on duty May 15, 1995 as United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
She previously practiced law in the New Haven, Connecticut law firm formerly known as Garrison & Arterton, P.C. from 1978 to 1995 when she took the bench. Her legal practice focused on labor and employment law in federal and state courts. She chaired the Connecticut Bar Association's Federal Practice Section, and served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, as an officer in the New Haven Inn of Court, and served by appointment on the Federal Court Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee, the United States Magistrate Judge Selection Committee, the United States District Court Local Rules Advisory Committee, and the State Court Rules Advisory Committee.
While in private practice, she also served as a Connecticut Superior Court Attorney Trial Referee and a Special Master in Federal District Court. She was elected to fellowship in the American Bar Foundation and Connecticut Bar Foundation, and was selected by peer review for inclusion The Best Lawyers in America.
Judge Arterton has been a continuing education lecturer, and has authored or contributed to books, articles and periodicals, including “Unconscious Bias and the Impartial Jury,” 40 Conn. L. Rev. 1023 (2008); “Alternative Dispute Resolution in the District of Connecticut,” in Mazadoorian, H. Mediation Practice Book: Critical Tools, Techniques and Forms, Law First Publ. 2002; Phelan and Arterton, Disability Discrimination the Workplace, (Clark Boardman Callaghan 1992), “Jury Trials Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” in Spriggs, K., Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
- Judge
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- - Current
- Assumed senior status on July 1, 2014.
- Attorney
- Private practice, New Haven, Connecticut
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- New Haven, Connecticut
- Law clerk
- Hon. Herbert Stern, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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- Hon. Herbert Stern, U.S. District Court of New Jersey
- Northeastern University School of Law
- J.D.
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- Mount Holyoke College
- B.A.
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- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Northeastern University
- Robert C. Zampano Award for Excellence in Mediation
- Community Mediation Inc.
- Maria Miller Stewart Recognition Award
- Legal Fund
- Federal Judges Association Board of Directors
- Current
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- United States Judicial Conference Committee on International Judicial Relations
- Member
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- “Unconscious Bias and the Impartial Jury"
- Conn. L. Rev.
- “Alternative Dispute Resolution in the District of Connecticut,” in Mazadoorian, H. Mediation Practice Book: Critical Tools, Techniques and Forms
- Law First Publ.
- “Jury Trials Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” in Spriggs, K., Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions
- John Wiley & Sons
- Disability Discrimination the Workplace
- Clark Boardman Callaghan
- “Employment Discrimination Claims In State Court: A Laboratory For Experimentation,”
- New York Law Review
