Nilda Havrilla
Attorney Nilda Rodriguez Havrilla is a graduate of Trinity College (2000) and Northeastern University School of Law (2003). She is admitted to practice law in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the United States District Court of Connecticut. From 2011 to 2019, she was the Managing Attorney of the Housing Unit at Connecticut Legal Services, Inc. (CLS), a nonprofit private law firm that is dedicated to helping low-income individuals and families obtain justice. She now serves as CLS’ Litigation and Advocacy Director. In her 20 years of practice at CLS, Attorney Rodriguez Havrilla has handled housing matters before administrative agencies, state court, and federal court, including evictions, illegal lockouts, housing discrimination cases, False Claims Act cases, grievance hearings with public housing authorities, and subsidy termination hearings. She argued at the Connecticut Appellate Court in 2021 and worked on a class action in Federal Court in 2022 on behalf of Medicaid recipients who utilize non-emergency medical transportation.
In December 2022, Attorney Rodriguez Havrilla was appointed to the Connecticut Advisory Council on Housing Matters by Governor Ned Lamont, as a representative of tenants. She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Legal Aid and Public Defense Committee since April 2021, planning and facilitating meetings in service of access to justice for Committee members’ shared client communities. Since March 2021, she has served on the United States District Court Federal Advisory Committee on behalf of United States Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy. In this role, she reviews and provides recommendations regarding applications for nomination to the United States District Court of Connecticut.
Attorney Rodriguez Havrilla was the Legal Services Committee Member for Connecticut’s Disaster Housing Task Force created by Governor Dannel Malloy following Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 to address temporary and long-term housing needs of Connecticut residents. She is a Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows Program and a former board member of the Connecticut Fair Housing Center and the Friendship Service Center.
