Overview
Lynda B. Munro, Connecticut Superior Court Judge (Ret.) is Of Counsel at Pullman & Comley in the firm's Family Law practice.
Former Judge Munro retired in 2014 after 20 years of distinguished service on the Connecticut bench. She served as a Presiding Judge for the Family Division of the New Haven Superior Court, Chief Administrative Judge for Family Matters from 2008-2013, and Presiding Judge of the Regional Family Docket for seven years. She has assisted parties and counsel in resolving hundreds of couples and high-conflict family disputes.
During her judicial career, Judge Munro sat on the Complex Litigation Docket, special proceedings, jury and court trials. She heard cases in the Meriden, New London, New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, Middlesex and Stamford-Norwalk judicial districts. Because of her years of writing and trying cases to the bench, she is particularly well-suited to assist our Appellate practice.
Before being sworn in as a Superior Court Judge in 1994, Judge Munro spent 15 years as a private practice attorney representing municipalities, individuals and business entities in municipal, land use, civil and family matters.
The former chair of the Judicial Education Committee, Judge Munro taught classes in civil, general and family law to the Superior Court Bench for more than 10 years. She also taught numerous courses through the Connecticut Bar Association, the New England Bar Association, the Connecticut Chapter of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and many other organizations, consortiums and associations. For the past six years, she has been an adjunct law professor at Quinnipiac Law School.
Judge Munro serves on the editorial board of Family Law Quarterly, a publication of the American Bar Association. She is a Trustee Emeritus of Connecticut College and was recently awarded the Connecticut College Medal, the highest honor the College can confer, for her accomplishments and service.
Office
Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association - Family Law and ADR sections
Connecticut Bar Association - Family Law and ADR sections; Dispute Resolution for Legal Fees Committee
Connecticut Bar Foundation Coopers Fellow
Fairfield County Bar Association - board of directors; co-chair, ADR Committee
New Haven County Bar Association - Executive Committee
Connecticut Mediation Association - advisory board
Connecticut Counsel for Non-Adversarial Divorce
Association of Family Conciliation Courts
The Benchers
Child Support Guidelines Commission - 2010-2014
Family Commission - 2008-2015
Community Involvement
Connecticut College - trustee emeritus and member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Former and Emeritus Trustees
Family Law Quarterly - editorial board member
Quinnipiac University School of Law - adjunct law professor; Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Center on Dispute Resolution
Honors & Recognitions
Named Stamford "Lawyer of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of family law in 2022 and family law arbitration for 2023
Named a Moffly Media Top Lawyer in Fairfield County, 2021 - Arbitration and Mediation
Recipient of the Connecticut Bar Association's "2019 Ladder Award" awarded by the Young Lawyer Section Women in the Law Committee
Ranked first in the 2016 "Best Individual Arbitrator" and the "Best Individual Mediator," categories Connecticut Law Tribune's annual reader's choice "Best of" award
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of family law since 2017 and arbitration, family law arbitration, family law mediation and mediation for 2023
Connecticut College Medal - 2014
News & Insights
News
Publications
Press Releases
Case Studies
Practice Areas
Bar and Court Admissions
- Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
Education
J.D., Case Western Reserve University Law School, 1979
B.A., Connecticut College, 1976