Luke Bronin | |
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Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut | |
Assumed office January 1, 2016 |
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Preceded by | Pedro Segarra |
Personal details | |
Born |
Port Chester, New York, U.S. |
June 30, 1979
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Sara Bronin (m. 2007) |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater |
Yale College (B.A.) Oxford University (M.S.) Yale Law School (J.D.) |
Profession | Attorney, politician |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/branch | US Navy Reserve |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Battles/wars | Afghanistan War |
Luke Aaron Bronin (born June 30, 1979) is the Mayor of the city of Hartford, Connecticut. He previously served as General Counsel for the Governor of Connecticut, Dannel Malloy. Prior to that position, he served in two senior posts at the United States Department of the Treasury during the first administration of President Barack Obama, first as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.
Bronin has served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and was deployed to Afghanistan and assigned to the Anti-Corruption Task Force.
He also worked in the private sector, at The Hartford Financial Services Group, as chief of staff to the President of the Hartford’s Property and Casualty Division.
In December 2014, the law firm Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP announced Bronin would become a partner. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Bronin completed high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before he attended Yale University as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to the United States to earn a law degree degree at Yale Law School.
After graduation from Yale Law School, Luke Bronin joined The Hartford Insurance Company in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, where he worked first as associate counsel and assistant to the General Counsel, and then as chief of staff to the President of The Hartford’s Property and Casualty Division.