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Justice Flemming L. Norcott, Jr.
Justice Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. was born on October 11, 1943 in New Haven,
CT. He graduated from the Taft School in 1961, received a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Columbia University in 1965 and a Juris Doctorate
degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1968. He also received
an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of New Haven in 1993, and
an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Albertus Magnus College in
2004. He is a recipient of the United Stated Peace Corps Franklin H.
Williams Award for Outstanding Community Service. He is also an Honorary
Member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
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Upon his graduation from Columbia Law, Justice
Norcott worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nairobi, Kenya, where he
was a lecturer in the faculty of law at the University of East Africa.
He then served on the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporations Legal
Staff in New York City and later as an Assistant Attorney General in the
United States Virgin Islands. He was the co-founder and executive
director of the Center for Advocacy, Research and Planning, Inc. in New
Haven. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he also served as a
hearing examiner for the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
He currently is an Associate Fellow of Calhoun College at Yale and
serves as a lecturer there. Justice Norcott was nominated to the
Superior Court in 1979 and remained there until his appointment to the
Appellate Court in 1987. In 1992, he was elevated to his current
position as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
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