{Albert Lenge Bio}

 

Albert P. Lenge has served the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) since 1995 as its Deputy Director and Assistant General Counsel.  Until 2005 Mr. Lenge managed fifty percent of the SEEC’s enforcement caseload involving both campaign financing and election administration cases.  Since 2005, he has actively managed the implementation of the SEEC’s post-2005 campaign finance filing repository function, including internet-based electronic filing, and the implementation of its full public financing program for statewide and General Assembly elective offices. 

 

Mr. Lenge previously served three Connecticut Secretaries of the State for over seven years, first as Director and Attorney of the Elections Division and later as the Secretary’s General Counsel.  Responsibilities included giving legal advice concerning the election administration duties of the Secretary of the State, Town Clerks, and Registrars of Voters and polling place officials.  Mr. Lenge also served the office of Connecticut’s Attorney General for almost two years, and another three-and-a-half years as counsel to Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission.  He was in litigation in private practice for over seven years, with bar memberships that included the Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and District of Columbia bars.

 

Mr. Lenge is presently a member of the Editorial Board of Public Integrity Magazine, a journal of the Ethics Section of the American Society for Public Administration supported by COGEL.  He presently serves as the SEEC’s Ethics Liaison to Connecticut’s Office of State Ethics.  He has also served on COGEL’s Model Law Drafting and Publications Committees.  He received his law degree from the University of Connecticut and his Bachelor of Arts from Boston College.