[2][7] Peters remained chief justice until 1996, when she took senior status, leaving the court in 2000 when she reached mandatory retirement age.
In 1996 the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the state had an affirmative obligation to provide Connecticut's school children with a substantially equal educational opportunity and that this constitutionally guaranteed right encompasses the access to a public education which is not substantially and materially impaired by racial and ethnic isolation.
The Court further concluded that school districting based upon town and city boundary lines are unconstitutional, and cited a statute that bounds school districts by town lines as a key factor in the high concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities in Hartford.
[9][10] She was joined in the majority opinion by Justices Robert Berdon, Flemming L. Norcott, Jr., and Joette Katz.
Peters was an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation and a former member of the board of managers of Swarthmore College.
[2] Peters then married Phillip I. Blumberg, the former dean of the University of Connecticut Law School.