Clarine Nardi Riddle

Clarine Nardi Riddle (born 1949) was attorney general of Connecticut, United States, from 1989 to 1991, the only woman to have held that position.

On December 22, 1988, Governor William O'Neill announced that he would appoint Riddle as attorney general to fill the remainder of the term to which Lieberman had been elected in 1986.

She was the first female attorney general to argue in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.

She has held numerous positions in both government and the private sector including senior vice president and general counsel of the National Multi Housing Council.

[2] She co-founded the political organization, No Labels, and was on the Constitutional Democracy board of directors at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Center.