Luke Bronin

Luke Bronin is a father of three whose career has taken him from Hartford City Hall to a Yale Law School classroom.¹² He also served as a Navy Reserve intelligence officer, volunteering for an Afghanistan deployment and working with a military task force focused on corruption.³

His education included Yale College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School.² Earlier jobs included work at Hartford Financial Services Group and the law firm Hinckley Allen.² He later became deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes at Treasury, then Governor Dannel Malloy's general counsel.²

Bronin served two terms as Hartford mayor, from 2016 through 2023.² His administration established the Hartford Youth Service Corps, the Reentry Welcome Center and a civilian crisis intervention project known as HEARTeam.² After leaving office, he taught at Yale Law and served as a fellow with its Tsai Leadership Program during the 2024 to 2025 academic year.²

His congressional housing platform favors development near transit, more flexible federal financing for affordable and market rate homes, and new building materials to reduce costs.⁴ He also calls for greater accountability for absentee landlords.⁴ He faces Republican Amy Chai in the November 3 election for Connecticut's 1st District.⁵