Trump names Conn. judicial nominees

Two Connecticut residents were featured in a list of judicial nominees selected by President Donald Trump in a White House announcement Tuesday.

William J. Nardini currently serves as chief of the criminal division for the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office. He has been nominated to the second circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The announcement said he “serves on the Criminal Chiefs Working Group of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee in the Department of Justice and the Advisory Committee for Local Rules of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.”

From 2010 to 2014, Nardini served as the Department of Justice attache at the United State Embassy in Rome, Italy. He was also a Fulbright scholar in Italy in 1998.

When he graduated from law school, Nardini served as a law clerk to Judge Jose A. Cabranes and Judge Guido Calabresi of the second circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Nardini earned his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, where he also served as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal.

The other Connecticut appointee — Barbara Bailey Jongbloed — currently serves as a judge on the New London District Superior Court. She has been nominated to serve as a judge on the Connecticut U.S. District Court.

Before taking the bench in 2000, Jongbloed served as an assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the criminal division in the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office.

After graduating from law school, Jongbloed served as a law clerk to Chief Judge T.F. Gilroy Daly of the Connecticut U.S. District Court.

Jongbloed earned her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Lawrence University and her Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law.

“Barbara Jongbloed and Bill Nardini have long, deep connections with the Connecticut legal community, and we look forward to their confirmation processes,” said a prepared statement provided by U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy.