Please join us at a Black History Month breakfast event
hosted by CCA and SCSU
Fighting for Connecticut’s Kids
Michael J. Adanti Student Center Ballroom | Southern Connecticut State University
Friday, February 21, 2025 | 8:30am—10:00am
Breakfast 8:30am-9:15am | Program 9:15am–10:00am
Keynote Speaker, Chief Justice Raheem Mullins
Celebrate the achievements of Black Americans | Learn about CCA’s impact across Connecticut
Be inspired!
CCA works to protect and promote the legal rights of Connecticut’s low-income children
so they have equitable opportunities for good health, a quality education
and a successful transition to adulthood.
Because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
For more information, contact Eileen Brennan: ebrennan@cca-ct.org
Keynote Speaker, Chief Justice Raheem Mullins
The Honorable Justice Raheem L. Mullins became the Chief Justice on Monday, September 30, 2024, after being nominated by Governor Ned Lamont on September 6, 2024. He is the youngest person to be appointed to the position of Chief Justice. He was nominated to the Supreme Court on October 4, 2017 by Governor Dannel P. Malloy. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court associate justice on November 1, 2017, becoming the youngest person to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Mullins served as a judge on the Appellate Court and as a trial judge on the Superior Court.
Born in Middletown, Justice Mullins graduated from Watkinson School in Hartford. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Clark University in Worcester, Mass. in 2001 and his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 2004. Justice Mullins is admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court as well as the Connecticut Bar.
Before becoming a judge, Justice Mullins served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Appellate Bureau, in the Division of Criminal Justice. In this position, he argued appeals before the Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Court. Before becoming an appellate prosecutor, Justice Mullins served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Child Protection Division of the Connecticut Attorney General's Office and tried cases before judges in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters.
Justice Mullins is currently a faculty member of the Connecticut Judicial Branch’s Civics Academy and participates in the annual Read Across America event and the Judicial Branch’s Speakers Bureau. He has been a member of the Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court; serves as Chair to the Code of Evidence Oversight Committee, 2018 to present; is a fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and is a member of the Watkinson School Board of Directors. He previously served as a member of the Young Lawyers Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, the Board of Directors for the Fund for Greater Hartford, as an Executive Committee Member of the Government Division of the Connecticut Bar Association, as a member of the Law Library Advisory Committee and the Task Force to Study the Feasibility of Amending Title 46b to Permit a Person Other Than a Family or Household member to Apply for a Restraining Order.