Nora Riordan Dannehy (born March 13, 1961) is an American attorney serving as an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court since September 2023.
[4] On September 29, 2008, Dannehy was appointed by United States Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to continue an investigation into the George W. Bush administration's dismissals of nine federal prosecutors in 2006.
Her role was to determine if anyone should be prosecuted following the investigation by the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility of the Department of Justice, which had concluded that political pressure drove the dismissals of at least three of the federal prosecutors in 2006.
[11] The New York Times reported in January 2023 that during the investigation she had a series of disputes with Durham about his and attorney general William Barr's prosecutorial ethics.
After Dannehy learned that other Durham prosecutors had drafted such a report, which she said contained disputed information and should not be released just before an election, she sent colleagues a memo explaining her concerns, and resigned.