Career
Connelly handled some of the most important litigation of the United States Department of Justice from 1990 to 2002. During his 12 years at Justice, Connelly served as a Special Attorney to United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and Janet Reno, as Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office Appellate Section, and as a Criminal Division trial attorney.
As Special Attorney to the Attorney General, Connelly was a member of the trial team and was the lead appellate prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing cases. Those prosecutions resulted in the separate convictions of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols for the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which resulted in 168 deaths. Mr. Connelly received the Exceptional Service Award from United States Attorney Janet Reno (the highest award given by the U.S. Department of Justice) in 1998 for his role in these prosecutions.
Following the U.S. Department of Justice, Connelly worked at Reilly Pozner & Connelly LLP in Denver from 2002 to 2008. He previously worked in private practice from 1984 to 1990, and as a judicial law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1983 to 1984.
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