Anthony E. Grillo
Anthony E. Grillo (January 21, 1915 – February 5, 1999) was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1983 to 1985.
Born in Hamden, Connecticut, Dempsey attended the public schools of that town, and received a BA from Yale University in 1936, and a JD from Yale Law School in 1938.[1]
He was formerly on the Connecticut Superior Court for Common Pleas and wrote 56 opinions when on the Connecticut Supreme Court. He served in the United States Army and was a Hamden town prosecutor and counsel. He taught Spanish and English at a New Haven school to pay for college and eventually mastered Dutch and French when in the military's counterintelligence program. Through the same program he went to Aruba where he met with a Dutch representative whose daughter would eventually become his wife. Governor Abraham Ribicoff and Governor John N. Dempsey appointed him to multiple judicial positions and other positions regarding workers compensation and labor representation. In 1982, Grillo was elected a Connecticut State Representative. In 1982, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. Governor William A. O'Neill appointed Grillo to the Connecticut Supreme Court.[1]
References
- Remarks of Justice Arthur Healey at the New Haven County Bar Association's Service of Remembrance (November 10, 1999), reported in Connecticut Reports, volume 247, p. 965-967.
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| Preceded by Anthony J. Armentano |
Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court 1983–1985 |
Succeeded by Angelo G. Santaniello |