You’ve got to hand it to Connecticut Chief Justice Chase Rogers. She has done her best on behalf of the state’s judges to get their salaries increased. She’s been talking about it and advocating for pay equity for several years. She has collected the data and voiced all of the arguments. She has appeared wherever and whenever before whatever committee of state bureaucrats and legislators and made the case. All that time expended on top of her many other duties. So why are we still talking about this? It is the debate that never ends.
The base salary for a Superior Court judge is $146,780. That figure is an insult. Rogers would like to see that raised, incrementally over the next five years, to $191,890 in the year 2017. A perfectly reasonable stance. The members of the newly formed Judicial Compensation Review Board met and will meet again. They first heard from Rogers, who endured a cross-examination of sorts from those members skeptical of her reasoning, an undesirable but politically mandated spectacle.
