Hon. C. Ellen ConnallySalmon P. Chase and Reconstruction
The demise of the Confederacy left a legacy of legal arrangements that raised fundamental and vexing questions regarding the legal rights and status of former slaves and the status of former Confederate states. Few individuals had greater impact on resolving these difficult questions than Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1865 to 1873.
In his rulings on cases brought before the court Chase combined his abolitionist philosophy with an activist jurisprudence to help dismantle once and for all the deposed machineries of slavery and the Confederacy. Chase sought to consolidate the gains of the Civil War era, while demonstrating that the war had both preserved the precious core characteristics of the federal union of states and fundamentally improved the nature of both private and public law. (From the publisher's description of The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase.)
Our speaker: Judge C. Ellen Connally is a Cleveland native and a long time member of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable. She received her B.S. degree in social studies from Bowling Green State University in 1967, and her J.D. degree from Cleveland State University in 1970. In 1998, Judge Connally received her M.A. in American history from Cleveland State University and went on to complete all coursework towards a Ph.D. degree in American history at Akron University.After serving in multiple roles at Ohio’s 8th District Court of Appeals and the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, Ms. Connally was elected judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court in 1980 where she served until retiring in 2004. Following retirement, Judge Connally worked as an adjunct professor of history at Ursuline College and of law at the University of Akron College of Law. She was appointed special prosecutor for the City of Cleveland in 2009 and in 2010 was elected to the Cuyahoga County Council where she served as president.
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