Full Name:
Chris Barnes
Gender:
Male
Family:
Wife: Stephanie; 3 Children
Birth Place:
New Canaan, CT
Home City:
West Hartford, CT
LLM, Insurance Law, The University of Connecticut School of Law, 2004-2010
JD, Quinnipiac University School of Law, 1993-1996
BA, English, University of Colorado Boulder, 1987-1991
Member, West Hartford Town Council, 2013-present
Delegate, Connecticut Republican Convention, 2014
No caucus information on file.
Partner, Reardon Scalo n Vodola Barnes Limited Liability Partnership, 2013-present
Litigation Partner, Jorden Burt Limited Liability Partnership, 2002-2013
Associate Attorney, LeBoeuf Lamb, Greene and MacRae Limited Liability Partnership, 1999-2002
Law Clerk, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker Limited Liability Partnership, 1997-1998
Law Clerk, Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Sidney S. Landau, 1996-1997
Judicial Intern, Former Chief United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey, 1995
Member, American Bar Association, present
Member, Connecticut Bar Association, present
Member, Connecticut Bar Association, present
Member, New York Bar Association, present
Member, West Hartford Risk Management Advisory Board, 2011-2013
Reason for Seeking Public Office:
I am running for state office to build a better future for all of us. We need to restore fiscal sanity and stability to our government. We need to restructure and right-size our government, and we need an economic plan to become business-friendly to grow our state economy. Having the government pay a few companies to move to Connecticut or to remain here, while ignoring all of the others, is not a sustainable economic policy. We need change and we need it now.
Connecticut should be a great place to live and work. We enjoy a great location, many natural resources, have a highly educated workforce, and we are one of the wealthiest states in the nation. We can do better. We must do better.
Let's work together to fix our broken state government.