Groton — A Groton resident and New London attorney is among 14 residents nominated Friday by Gov. Dannel Malloy to become a judge on the state Superior Court.

Matthew Edward Auger is a senior partner and trial lawyer at Suisman Shapiro in New London, where he has worked since 1988 and specializes in personal injury cases, including wrongful death claims, the release said.

He is a retired captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the United States Naval Reserve and served on active duty from 1984 to 1988 and in the reserves from 1988 to 2014. Auger now volunteers to provide legal assistance to active duty military members, retired members and their families at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton.

“Selecting nominees to fill vacancies in our court system is one of the most important duties that a governor performs — they must possess the qualities that build a stronger, fairer Connecticut for everyone in the long run,” Malloy said in a prepared statement.

In addition to his other work, Auger serves as a Superior Court attorney trial referee and is a judge of the Gaming Disputes Court for the Mohegan Tribal Court.

Peter A. McShane of Madison, a longtime prosecutor in New London who currently is the state’s attorney for the Middlesex Judicial District also was nominated to become a judge on the state Superior Court on Friday.

The nominees announced Friday, along with 16 other nominees named last week, would fill a fraction of the 45 vacancies in the court.

Malloy plans to leave 21 positions vacant in the court by the end of his term, the release said. Since the bipartisan budget assumes 12 vacancies, additional unfilled jobs would result in savings, the release said.