Arthur H. Healey (May 5, 1920 – July 25, 2003) was a justice of the

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from 1979 to 1990. He was born in

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, and attended New Haven High School and earned degrees at

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and

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and served in the

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during World War II. He served in the

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representing the 10th district from 1954 to 1960 as a Democrat. Healey later became a Connecticut Superior Court judge, and in a 1977 evaluation of judges on that court he received only an average rating. Despite this, in 1978, Healey was expected to be nominated for a vacancy on the state supreme court due to his seniority, but was passed over in favor of

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, the first woman justice to be appointed. However, in May 1979, Governor

Ella Grasso Ella Rosa Giovianna Oliva Grasso (née Tambussi; May 10, 1919 – February 5, 1981) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 83rd governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980, after r ...

nominated Healey to another vacancy on the state supreme court.

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