
Judge Arterton was nominated by President Bill Clinton,
confirmed by the United States Senate, and entered on duty May 15,
1995 as United States District Judge for the District of
Connecticut. She has sat by designation with the United
States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Federal Circuit
and the Armed Forces.
Judge Arterton served on the United States Judicial
Conference Committee on International Judicial Relations from 2002
to 2008 and continues her participation in international judicial
education programs. Her international work includes judicial
programs with judges from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar,
Thailand, Korea, Ghana, Latria, Kosovo, Russia, China, Jordan,
Pakistan, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and
Suriname.
She chairs the District Court's committee on Jury
Utilization and has presided on the Support Court in New haven
since 2010 for post-incarceration and pretrial offenders with drug
and alcohol addiction. She is a member of the Committee of
the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Lands of New
Haven.
In 1996, she received the Connecticut Women's Education
and Legal Fund's Maria Miller Stewart Recognition Award, and in
2000 she received Community Mediation Inc.'s Robert C. Zampano
Award for Excellence in Mediation. In 2005 she was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Laws by Northeastern University.
Prior to taking the bench, she was in private practice
starting in 1978. Her legal practice focused on labor and
employment law in federal and state courts. She chaired the
Connecticut Bar Association's Federal Practice Section, served on
the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Board, the New Haven Inn
of Court, and on numerous federal and state advisory
committees.
Judge Arterton has been a continuing education lecturer,
and has authored or contributed to books, articles and periodicals,
including "Unconscious Bias and the Impartial Jury," 40 Conn. L.
Rev. 1023 (2008); "Alternative Dispute Resolution in the District
of Connecticut," in Mazadoorian, H., Mediation Practice book:
Critical Tools, Techniques and Forms, Law First Publ. 2002;
Phelan and Arterton, Disability Discrimination in the
Workplace, Clark Boardman Callaghan 1992), "Jury Trials Under
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," in Spriggs, K,
Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII Actions, John Wiley
& Sons, 1994; and "Employment Discrimination Claims In State
Court: A Laboratory For Experimentation," New York Law Review,
1984/85. She also taught trial practice at Yale Law
School.
She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College (Political
Science) and Northeastern University School of Law, where she
served as a member of the Visiting Committee. She was a law
clerk for Hon. Herbert J. Stern, U.S. District Court for the
District of New Jersey. Her husband was founding Dean of the
Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington
University, where he is currently emeritus professor. Judge
Arterton's two daughters are attorneys.