BREAKING: Gov Chafee to Appoint Eva-Marie Mancuso as Chair of RI Board of Education
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Governor Lincoln Chafee today announced he would name attorney Eva-Marie Mancuso to the chair position of the newly created RI Board of Education.
Chafee had previously appointed former House Majority Leader George Carroulo, but he resigned appointment to the post on Friday.
Mancuso will need to be confirmed by the Senate.
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“It is a new day for education in Rhode Island,” Mancuso said. “I am looking forward to working with Governor Chafee, commissioners and education leaders responsible educating our very youngest children right up to our graduate students. Education is the most important tool we have to combat the economic challenges facing our state. I am honored to be asked to fill this position.”
Mancuso is Managing Partner with the law firm of Hamel, Waxler, Allen & Collins. Prior Mancuso served as Assistant Attorney General for Rhode Island and, prior to that, Assistant District Attorney for Bristol County, Massachusetts. She also had been a candidate for Attorney General.
Mancuso earned a BA from the University of Rhode Island (URI) and a JD from Suffolk University Law School, where she was Student Bar Association President and earned the Outstanding Graduate Award for Public Service.
According to Chafee's release:
Mancuso is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association, is a former Vice President of the URI Alumni Association, and served as a CCRI Foundation Trustee. She was the RI Representative to the National Lawyers / Teacher Partnership, and is currently a Civil Trial Specialist with the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Mancuso has been honored as the Rhode Island Business and Professional “Woman of the Year,” is a recipient of the South County “Business Woman of Achievement” Award, and received the “Outstanding Service Award” from the URI Alumni Association.
