Sean Connelly

Sean Connelly

Nonpartisan

Prior offices

Colorado Court of Appeals

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Education

Law

Catholic University Law School, 1983

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Sean Connelly was a judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, to which he was appointed by Democratic Governor Bill Ritter on June 30, 2008. He took office on July 16, 2008. The appointment was a provisional two-year term and expired on January 11, 2011. If retained by the voters, the following term would be for eight years. Connelly's current salary is $124,092. He did not run for retention.

Gov. Ritter appointed Terry Fox as his replacement on September 1, 2010.

Education

Judge Connelly is married and has two daughters.

Career

Connelly graduated from the Catholic University Law School in 1983, whereupon he began serving as a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1984-90 Connelly was in private practice, and from 1990-2002 he served as a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and Denver. During this time, he served as Special Attorney to two Attorney's General, John Ashcroft and Janet Reno. From 2002 until his judicial appointment in 2008, he was a partner in the Denver firm Reilly, Pozner & Connelly.

As Special Attorney to the Attorney General, 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. 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.

He was sworn in to the Court of Appeals on July 16, 2008.

External links

 

• Top Denver trial firm announces Sean Connelly as new named partner

Footnotes

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