The Council consists of the following:

Three Superior or Appellate Court judge members
Three attorney members
Six public members
Two alternate judge members
Two alternate attorney members 
Three alternate public members
Three alternate family support magistrate members
Three alternate workers' compensation commissioner members

Whenever the Council considers a complaint against a workers' compensation commissioner member, an alternate workers' compensation commissioner member replaces a judge member. Likewise, when the Council considers a complaint against a family support magistrate, an alternate family support magistrate member replaces a judge member.

At the present time terms of regular members are four years. A regular member may not serve consecutive terms.

Alternate members serve terms of three years and cannot serve consecutive terms as an alternate member. An alternate member could, at the termination of his or her term, be appointed a regular member.

The Chairperson and members are appointed by the Governor with the approval of the Legislature.

The names of the present regular and alternate members of the Council and the dates their terms expire are listed on the following page.

BIOGRAPHIES OF COUNCIL MEMBERS
AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

JUDGE MEMBERS

HONORABLE JULIA DiCOCCO DEWEY graduated in 1976 from Catholic University, the Columbus School of Law with a Juris Doctor. She served in the United States Navy as a Judge Advocate General for five years before returning to Connecticut. From 1982 - 1998 she was a state prosecutor whose primary emphasis was appellate practice. Judge Dewey was appointed a Superior Court Judge in 1998. Since then, she has served as Chief Administrative Judge for Family Matters, Presiding Judge for New Haven and Waterbury Juvenile Court, Bridgeport Criminal Court and Bridgeport and New Haven Family Court. Since September 2008, Judge Dewey has been assigned to Criminal Jury Court in Hartford. Judge Dewey has been a member of the Judicial Review Council since January 2011.

ATTORNEY MEMBERS

PUBLIC MEMBERS

CLARENCE R. GREBEY, III

Mr. Grebey was appointed to the Judicial Review Council in May 2011 by Governor Dannel P. Malloy.

He currently works for a public relations agency in New York City where he specializes in strategic corporate communications, issues management, public affairs and consumer marketing. Over the course of his professional career, Mr. Grebey has directed communications across the lifespan of a company - from IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and international brand development and marketing, to litigation, labor relations, downsizing and bankruptcies.

He began his career in Washington, D.C., serving as a press secretary and chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also served as a political consultant to the Foreign Ministry of Japan. In 1990, he was the program director for the 20th annual Earth Day celebration in Washington, DC.

Mr. Grebey holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut with his wife and two children.

SCOTT J. MURPHY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Mr. Murphy was appointed the Executive Director of the Judicial Review Council by Governor Dannel Malloy in December 2011.

Mr. Murphy was a prosecutor in the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice for 34 years. During this time he worked as a Deputy Assistant State's Attorney in the Office of the Chief State's Attorney, and later as a Supervisory Assistant State's Attorney at G.A. #15, New Britain. In 1998, he was appointed the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of New Britain and served in that capacity until his retirement in October of 2011.

Mr. Murphy is a graduate of Alfred University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Buffalo Law School.