Elizabeth B. Leete
American, 1933 - 2020
BiographyElizabeth "Betty" B. Leete, born on July 31, 1933, Kentucky, was a lawyer who practiced actively until the age of 84.
She graduated from the Louisville Collegiate School for Girls and Wellesley College, where she was a Wellesley Scholar. After marrying Harmon Leete in 1955, she worked in public relations and for the Christian Science Monitor and Hartford Courant.
At the age of 40, with four children, she attended the University of Connecticut Law School. Following law school, Leete clerked for Justice Alva Loiselle at the Connecticut Supreme Court and interviewed for a clerkship with Justice White of the United States Supreme Court. She then joined the firm of Ribicoff and Kotkin. In 1980, she co-founded what was, at the time, the largest all-women law firm in Connecticut with Shelagh O'Neill and Gale Kosto.
From 1990, Leete focused her practice on immigration law, becoming Chair of the Connecticut Association of Immigration Lawyers. She retired from her firm in 2018 but continued to do occasional immigration work until her death on July 15, 2020.
References:
Elizabeth “Betty” B. Leete Esq. (Baker) - 2020 - Leete Stevens Enfield Chapels & Crematory. (n.d.). https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/17332410/elizabeth-betty-b-leete-esq
Blumenfeld v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE US, 762 F. Supp. 24 (D. Conn. 1991). (n.d.). Justia Law. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/762/24/1619547/
She graduated from the Louisville Collegiate School for Girls and Wellesley College, where she was a Wellesley Scholar. After marrying Harmon Leete in 1955, she worked in public relations and for the Christian Science Monitor and Hartford Courant.
At the age of 40, with four children, she attended the University of Connecticut Law School. Following law school, Leete clerked for Justice Alva Loiselle at the Connecticut Supreme Court and interviewed for a clerkship with Justice White of the United States Supreme Court. She then joined the firm of Ribicoff and Kotkin. In 1980, she co-founded what was, at the time, the largest all-women law firm in Connecticut with Shelagh O'Neill and Gale Kosto.
From 1990, Leete focused her practice on immigration law, becoming Chair of the Connecticut Association of Immigration Lawyers. She retired from her firm in 2018 but continued to do occasional immigration work until her death on July 15, 2020.
References:
Elizabeth “Betty” B. Leete Esq. (Baker) - 2020 - Leete Stevens Enfield Chapels & Crematory. (n.d.). https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/17332410/elizabeth-betty-b-leete-esq
Blumenfeld v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE US, 762 F. Supp. 24 (D. Conn. 1991). (n.d.). Justia Law. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/762/24/1619547/
Person TypeIndividual
American, born 1950