State Senate Republican Leader Louis C. DeLuca (R-Woodbury), a member of the Board of Directors for the General Assembly's Italian-American Legislative Caucus (IALC), presented the group's annual "Italian American of the Year" award to Middlebury resident Rosemary Giuliano. Giuliano, an attorney in the Woodbury firm Giuliano & Richardson LLC, has served as a member of the state's Judiciary Selection Committee and most recently served as the Chair of the State Ethics Commission (2000-2004). Giuliano has also served on the boards of many Greater Waterbury volunteer organizations, including the Women's Emergency Shelter, the United Way and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
"Rosemary Giuliano is a public servant of the highest order, and through her many volunteer activities at the state and local level, she has brought pride and distinction to the Italian-American community," said Senator DeLuca. "Her willingness to serve as Chair of the ethics commission during the very difficult time of the Rowland scandal was a great service to the people of Connecticut. Not only did she have to oversee the commission while under constant scrutiny, she also had to endure personal attacks made by politicians looking to get in the newspaper - all for a volunteer job. But Rosemary handled it all with great poise and an unerring sense of fairness. I am proud that she is both a constituent and a fellow Italian American."
Senator DeLuca, the highest ranking republican in the state senate, is a former Chairman of the IALC and currently serves on the Board of Directors. The IALC is a bi-partisan organization composed of Connecticut state legislators of Italian descent. The caucus holds two major fundraisers a year to benefit their scholarship fund, which provides students in Trinity College and Central Connecticut State University's Italian Studies program with the opportunity to travel to Italy. |
