Victor A. Bolden is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Before his service on the bench, he served as the City of New Haven’s Corporation Counsel, and advised the municipality’s officers and departments on legal matters pertaining to their official duties and oversaw hundreds of active cases. He also previously served as General Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), one of the nation’s preeminent organizations dedicated to racial justice. As General Counsel, he advised LDF on internal legal matters as well as on civil rights cases, and helped manage its offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. From 1994 to 2000, he litigated education, housing, employment, and voting rights cases as an Assistant Counsel at the LDF. In addition, he practiced at Wiggin & Dana LLP and worked in the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation’s National Legal Department. Among other professional roles, he has served on the American Bar Association (“ABA”)’s Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs, and the ABA’s Section of Litigation’s Trial Practice Committee, Appellate Practice Committee, and Federal Practice Task Force. His teaching experience includes constitutional law seminars at New York Law School and in Brazil and South Africa. He is a 1986 graduate of Columbia College, and a 1989 graduate of Harvard Law School.
