(Rocky Hill, CT) - The Honorable Andrew J. McDonald, Chair of the Criminal Justice Commission, today announced that Anne F. Mahoney, State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Windham, has informed the Commission of her intention to retire at the end of her term on June 30, 2025.
Attorney Mahoney was appointed by the Criminal Justice Commission on May 19, 2016 to serve as State’s Attorney for the Windham Judicial District, which includes the towns of Windham, Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Danielson, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson and Woodstock.
The State’s Attorney is the chief law enforcement officer of the Windham Judicial District and oversees the prosecutors and other Division of Criminal Justice staff at the Superior Court in Danielson and shares oversight of the staff at the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters at Willimantic.
“The Criminal Justice Commission wishes to extend its gratitude and appreciation to State’s Attorney Mahoney for her three decades of service to the State of Connecticut,” Justice McDonald said. “In that time, Anne has built a reputation as a highly respected and effective leader with a deep commitment to fairness, professional responsibility, training and public safety. We extend our congratulations and best wishes on her retirement.”
Attorney Mahoney joined the Division of Criminal Justice in 1992 as a Deputy Assistant State’s Attorney at Geographical Area No. 11 in Danielson. From 1993 until her 2016 appointment to State’s Attorney, she served in the Hartford State’s Attorney’s Office where she prosecuted many serious felony cases. A graduate of Trinity College, she earned her law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law and served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where she attained the rank of Captain.
State’s Attorney Mahoney has served as the Chief State’s Attorney’s designee to the State of Connecticut Child Fatality Review Panel, on the Governor’s Victims’ Rights Advisory Commission and as chairperson of the Commission on the Standardization of the Collection of Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations. She was honored in 2022 with the Alyssiah Wiley Making A Difference in the Community Award, in 2013 with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center Visionary Award and in 2006 as Prosecutor of the Year by the Connecticut Criminal Justice Educational and Charitable Association.
“It’s been a pleasure and privilege to work with State’s Attorney Mahoney and I would like to compliment her on an outstanding career with the Division of Criminal Justice,” Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin said. “I would like to express my appreciation for State’s Attorney Mahoney’s professionalism and attention to duty which she always displayed in our interactions. I wish her much happiness during her well-deserved retirement.”
Established under Article XXIII of the Connecticut Constitution, the Criminal Justice Commission is responsible for the appointment of all state prosecutors in Connecticut.
The Criminal Justice Commission is currently seeking qualified applicants for the appointment of the state’s next State’s Attorney of the Windham Judicial District. Click this link to the Division of Criminal Justice’s website to apply, and for further information.
In addition to Justice McDonald, Senior Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, the commission's membership includes Chief Judge of the Appellate Court Melanie L. Cradle, attorneys Robert M. Berke, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Scott J. Murphy and Moy N. Ogilvie and Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin.