Margaret Q. Chapple

Margaret Q. Chapple is an attorney with Cowdery, Murphy & Healy, LLC in Hartford who practices civil litigation, internal and independent investigations, and alternative dispute resolution. She brings extensive public-sector experience from the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General, where she served in senior leadership positions and handled litigation, appeals, supervision of legal teams, and complex settlement discussions involving state agencies and officials.

Margaret received her Juris Doctor degree and Masters in Social Work from the University of Connecticut and earned her undergraduate degree from Southern Connecticut State University. She completed the 40-hour Mediation Training Program conducted by the Center for Dispute Resolution at Quinnipiac University. Her legal and social work education, combined with mediation training, supports a practice requiring careful investigation, dispute assessment, negotiation, and judgment in complex civil and organizational matters.

Margaret served as Deputy Attorney General for Connecticut from January 2019 through February 2023, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Attorney General’s Office. Earlier roles included Assistant Attorney General and department head in the Public Safety and Employment Rights Sections, Associate Attorney General for Administration and Management, and Associate Attorney General for Litigation. She is admitted in Connecticut, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the Second Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Margaret Q. Chapple has served on the Federal Grievance Committee and is a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. She has been a faculty member with the National Association of Attorneys General’s Training and Research Institute and received its 2016 Faculty of the Year Award. Her official profile further notes a 2015 Connecticut Law Tribune Professional Excellence Award and current public service on the Granby Board of Selectmen.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Cowdery, Murphy & Healy, LLC
• Member, Connecticut Bar Association
• James W. Cooper Fellow, Connecticut Bar Foundation
• Member, Federal Grievance Committee
• Member, Granby Board of Selectmen
• Former Member, Granby Planning and Zoning Commission

Licensed State

• Connecticut

Education

• University of Connecticut
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Connecticut
  Masters in Social Work
• Southern Connecticut State University
  Bachelor’s Degree

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