Joseph Walter Bogdanski (November 12, 1911 – January 12, 1997)[1] was an American college football player, lawyer, and judge.
[3] He entered private practice in 1940,[1] and served as prosecuting attorney for the City Court of Meriden, Connecticut, from 1942 to 1943.
[3] He then entered in the United States Navy during World War II, remaining in service from 1943 to 1948,[3] and achieved the rank of Lieutenant while serving on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic theater.
[1] He was appointed Lieutenant Commander of the military staff of Governor Chester Bowles from 1949 to 1951, also serving during that time as a judge of the City Court of Meriden.
Following his retirement from the court in 1981, he served as a senior judge in New Haven County, Connecticut, for a decade.