Advisory Board of Governors
Richard Blumenthal
Attorney General, State of Connecticut
First elected in 1990, Richard Blumenthal is serving his fifth term as Attorney General.
Mr. Blumenthal previously served as administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, aide to former U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to the President of the United States, and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
He was U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the state’s chief federal prosecutor, from 1977 to 1981 — prosecuting drug traffickers, organized and white collar crime, civil rights violators, consumer fraud and polluters.
He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1984 to 1987, and then the State Senate from 1987 to 1990. As a volunteer attorney for the NAACP legal defense fund, Blumenthal saved the life of an innocent, wrongly convicted death row inmate, who came within hours of execution.
Blumenthal graduated from Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal.
He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
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