Sandra Slack Glover

Sandra Slack Glover (born 1970/1971) where she served as articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.

Career

After graduating law school, Glover served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. She then served as an appellate attorney at the Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice. She moved to Connecticut in 2002 and was an associate at Wiggin & Dana. In 2004, she joined the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Connecticut, serving as Chief of the Appellate Unit since 2010.

Nomination to Connecticut Supreme Court

On April 25, 2023, Governor Ned Lamont nominated Glover to be an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court to the seat vacated by Justice Maria Araújo Kahn, who was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Glover stated, during her confirmation hearing, that she would not have signed a 2017 letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee supporting Barrett’s nomination if she knew Barrett would later vote to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion protections.

On May 19, 2023, it was announced that she is withdrawing her name from consideration because of the opposition over her past support of Amy Coney Barrett.

Personal life

Glover lives in Guilford, Connecticut.