April 16, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Awards: Jurisprudence: Minority Volunteers: New Haven Register: Flemming L. Norcott, 61, an associate justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, won the award for a lifetime of community service, including a stint in Kenya with the Peace Corps as a law lecturer at the University of East Africa
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April 16, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Awards: Jurisprudence: Minority Volunteers: New Haven Register: Flemming L. Norcott, 61, an associate justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, won the award for a lifetime of community service, including a stint in Kenya with the Peace Corps as a law lecturer at the University of East Africa
Flemming L. Norcott, 61, an associate justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, won the award for a lifetime of community service, including a stint in Kenya with the Peace Corps as a law lecturer at the University of East Africa
Flemming L. Norcott, 61, an associate justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, won the award for a lifetime of community service, including a stint in Kenya with the Peace Corps as a law lecturer at the University of East Africa
Norcott receives Marshall award Judge honored for lifetime of service
Maria Garriga, Register Staff
04/16/2005
HAMDEN — Justice Flemming L. Norcott Jr. received the 2005 Thurgood Marshall award from the Black Law Student Association at Quinnipiac University School of Law Friday.
Past recipients have included Hillary Rodham Clinton and the late Johnnie Cochran, who received the award in 1999.
Norcott, 61, an associate justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, won the award for a lifetime of community service, including a stint in Kenya with the Peace Corps as a law lecturer at the University of East Africa.
In recent years, Norcott has pushed to get more law clerk opportunities for minority students.
The law clerk positions often open many doors.
Norcott was the second black student to graduate from the Taft School in Waterford, Conn., a prestigious private school, in 1961.
He went on to earn his undergraduate and law degrees from Columbia University in New York.
"I do owe a lot of people," said Norcott, "and I’ve tried to do something for some people, and I’ve tried to bring some along, so they can go further than I could go."
He said the current generation of law students understand the need to arm themselves with education to solve society’s problems — and it gives them an advantage his generation lacked in tackling perennial problems such as racism.
"We recognize what the problems are now, but we struggled for a century to figure out what the problems were," he said.
The BLSA of Quinnipiac has given the award for the past two years to leaders in the fields of law, politics and education who embody the ideas of Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. Marshall also made history as the plaintiff’s attorney who won the Brown vs. Board of Education landmark civil rights case that sounded the death knell for segregation. Marshall argued the case before the Supreme Court.
Devant Joiner, 35, a third- year law student from New Haven and secretary of BLSA, said he hopes to follow in Norcott’s steps and become a judge as a means of community service.
"With his education, he could easily have gone the corporate route and made tons of money in the private sector, but he devoted himself to community service instead," Joiner said.
In addition to his work on the state’s high court, Norcott is a lecturer at Yale University.
He also was a co-founder and executive director of the Center for Advocacy, Research and Planning in New Haven.
The audience included a mix of attorneys, judges, students and politicians who greeted Norcott warmly.
"He is made of the same mold (as Marshall). He is a man who is forthright. He is engaged in the struggle," said State Rep. William R.
Dyson, D-New Haven.
Maria Garriga can be reached at mgarriga@nhregister.com or 789-5726.
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