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Justice
David M. Borden
received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa,
from Amherst College in 1959, and his LL.B., cum laude, from Harvard Law
School in 1962. He engaged in the private practice of law in Hartford
from 1962-77. From 1963-71, he served as the executive director of the
Commission to Revise the Criminal Statutes of the State of Connecticut
and he was the chief draftsman of the 1969 Connecticut Penal Code. From
1975-76, he acted as Chief Counsel to the Joint Committee on the
Judiciary. He served as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from
1977-78 and as a judge of the Superior Court from 1978-83. From 1981-83,
Justice Borden was the president of the Connecticut Judges Association.
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In 1983, he
became one of the original six members of the Connecticut Appellate
Court. In 1990, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by Governor
William A. O'Neill. He was
the Chairperson of the Rules Committee of the Judges of the Superior
Court from 1992 to 2001, and was the Chairperson of the Connecticut Law
Revision Commission Task Force charged with the duty of codifying the
Connecticut Law of Evidence, which was later adopted by the Judges of
the Superior Court as the Connecticut Evidence Code. He also
teaches a class in statutory construction at the University of
Connecticut School of Law. He is the co-author of
three books, Connecticut Criminal Jury Instructions,
Superior Court Criminal Rules, and Connecticut Criminal Law,
as well as several law review articles.
Justice Borden also has been
the recipient of countless honors and distinctions over the course of
his professional career, including the University of Connecticut Law
Review Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship and Service to the
Legal Community in 1994 and the Raymond E. Baldwin Public Service Award
in 1997.
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