found: Wikipedia, viewed May 24, 2018(Joette Katz; born February 3, 1953; is Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, and a former Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court; born and raised in Brooklyn, New York; Katz started her professional career in 1977 as an attorney at the law firm of Winnick, Vine and Welch; from 1978 to 1981 she was as an assistant public defender in the appellate unit of the Office of the Chief Public Defender; Katz was nominated for the Superior Court bench by Gov. William A. O'Neill in 1989. She was elevated to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. in 1992; on November 30, 2010, incoming Gov. Dannel Malloy named Justice Katz to head the troubled Connecticut Department of Children and Families; she stepped down from the Connecticut Supreme Court on January 5, 2011)
