GROTON WOMAN NOMINATED TO BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES GROTON ATTORNEY NAMED TO CTNEXT COMMITTEE

Hartford — Governor Dannel P. Malloy on Friday named a Groton woman as one of two Connecticut residents to fill vacancies on the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Nancy A. Turner of Groton serves as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Program coordinator for Advanced Behavioral Health Inc., where she works with state agencies, health care providers and nonprofit groups assisting substance-exposed infants and their families.

From 2012 to 2016, she served as director of offender risk reduction with the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, where she helped develop recommendations to improve the response and prevention efforts of intimate partner homicides and near fatalities.

Malloy also nominated Stephen D. Dargan of West Haven to serve on the parole board. Dargan served as a state representative for West Haven from 1991 to 2017, and as state House chairman of the Public Safety and Security Committee for 22 years.

Groton attorney Jeff Godley has been named to an advisory panel of the statewide entrepreneurial organization CTNext.

The CTNext board of directors announced this week that it has formed a Higher Education Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee to help foster collaboration within Connecticut's public and private higher education system to strengthen innovation, entrepreneurship and the state's economy.

Godley is joined on the advisory committee by James Boyle, director of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute; Elena Cahill, entrepreneur in residence at the University of Bridgeport; Ferenc Fazekas, a Quinnipiac School of Business student; Chris Hamer, entrepreneur in residence at Fairfield University; Makaela Kingsley, director of the Wesleyan Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship; Randeka Maric, vice president of research at the University of Connecticut; Vince Murphy, a Norwalk Community College Foundation board member, and Michael Niastro, chief executive at Central Connecticut State University

Godley, an attorney with Brown Jacobson, is commissioner of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and an ex-officio board member of the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut.

To learn more, visit www. ctnext.com.