Former state Senator and Judge Howard Owens Jr. from Bridgeport has died at 83.

Owens was a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Vanderbilt School of Law. 

He was a young assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut before his decades-long legal practice at Owens & Schine, then in Bridgeport.

Owens resided in the Brooklawn section of Bridgeport with his wife Ann.