Education
Capital Community College.
Capital Community College.
Segarra was appointed to the Hartford City Council through the efforts of then Mayor Eddie Perez. Prior to becoming mayor, Segarra was president of Hartford"s City Council. He succeeded former Mayor Eddie Perez who resigned after he was convicted by a state Superior Court jury of bribery and extortion in a political corruption case, though Perez" convictions eventually were reversed by the Connecticut Appellate Court.
In 2015, Luke Bronin defeated Segarra for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
He is Hartford"s second mayor of Puerto Rican ancestry and the first openly gay mayor of the city. He is also the second openly gay mayor of an American state capital city (David Cicilline of neighboring Providence, Rhode Island was the first).
Segarra was born in the small rural town of Maricao, Puerto Rico. At age seven his family relocated to the Bronx, New York in search of better opportunities.
At the age of fifteen, Segarra moved to Hartford seeking a better life than what he was experiencing in New York City.
He later earned a full scholarship to the University of Hartford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Segarra was admitted to the University of Connecticut"s Graduate School of Social Work, where he received a Master of Social Work. After graduation, he attended the University of Connecticut School of Law and graduated in 1985.
He passed the Connecticut bar that same year.
In 1991, Segarra was appointed Corporation Counsel for the City of Hartford, the youngest person ever selected for the position at that time. and appointed for the position for three consecutive terms.
A resident of Hartford since 1975, Segarra is an alum of Greater Hartford Community College, where he was a founding member of the school"s Latino Student Organization. While in law school, Segarra was a founding member of the Latino Law Student Organization and became the organization’s first President. He is a member of Connecticut"s state and federal bars (since 1986) and the Bar of the State of Florida (since 2000).