HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ...

By Trip Gabriel Ellen Ash Peters, a legal trailblazer who was the first woman on the faculty of Yale Law School and the first female chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and who wrote a ...

Ellen Ash Peters, a former chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and a groundbreaking figure among women in the law, has died, colleagues said Tuesday. She was 94. Peters was the first ...

Ellen Ash Peters, the Yale academic who upended the insular network that had shaped Connecticut’s courts for centuries, becoming the first woman to sit on the state Supreme Court and then serve ...

Ellen Ash Peters was the first woman appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1978. She became the first woman to serve as chief justice six years later. She emigrated to the U.S. with her parents ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ...