Mallori Deanna Thompson is a business litigation attorney at Robinson & Cole LLP and is currently the president of the George W. Crawford Black Bar Association and the vice chair of the Connecticut Bar Association's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee. She previously served as a judicial law clerk for Chief Justice (Ret.) Richard A. Robinson of the Connecticut Supreme Court and Judge Victor A. Bolden of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She has also been in the United States Army Reserves for over ten years and is currently a Captain in the Medical Service Corps.
Attorney Thompson received her B.A. from Spelman College and her J.D. and human rights certificate from the University of Connecticut School of Law. While attending law school, she successfully represented an asylum seeker in a removal proceeding as a student representative in the Asylum & Human Rights Clinic, completed the Community Justice Fellowship at Greater Hartford Legal Aid, and served as the first Black Editor-in-Chief of the Connecticut Law Review.
Over her career, Attorney Thompson has been published in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, The Georgetown Law Journal, Modern Critical Race Perspectives, and various other journals on a variety of subjects such as maternal mortality, reparations, and economic justice.