Judicial Nominations Imminent. Clark Expected to Exit Governor’s Office.

Governor Ned Lamont is expected to nominate more than a dozen new judges this week. Most of the nominations will be to the Superior Court, the state’s trial level court.

The biggest prize in the anticipated round of nominations will go to Robert Clark, who resigned from the Superior Court after serving on it for eight months to become Lamont’s legal counsel in 2019. Clark will get a boost to the nine-member Appellate Court. He will fill the vacancy created by Judge Douglas Lavine, who in December reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. Lavine was elevated to the appeals court from the Superior Court by former Governor M. Jodi Rell in 2006.

Clark’s nomination, long expected, has caused considerable speculation on who the Greenwich Democrat will select to fill the crucial job as he prepares to tussle with the legislature and seek a second term.