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E.G. Pizzella
Ed Pizzella is a lawyer, politician, consumer advocate, actor, director, producer, writer and, last but not least, a poet. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he attended local schools and in 1954 was g...показать большеEd Pizzella is a lawyer, politician, consumer advocate, actor, director, producer, writer and, last but not least, a poet. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he attended local schools and in 1954 was graduated cum laude from Trinity College with a B.A. degree. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1957 and has since been engaged in the general practice of law. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, the Federal District Court Bar for the District of Connecticut, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. In law school, as a member of the Board of Student Editors, he authored three articles which were published in the Connecticut Bar Journal. As President of the local Chamber of Commerce and as a member of his local Town Council, he authored numerous articles, which were published in local newspapers. Many of his poems have also been published in local newspapers and on the internet.
He commenced legal practice as Assistant Legal Aid Attorney for The Legal Aid Society of Hartford County and three years later entered private practice, as a member of the Hartford law firm of Schatz & Schatz. He subsequently became a partner in the New Britain law firm of Cianci & Pizzella and founded and chaired The Legal Aid Board of New Britain. He served as a member of the Newington Zoning & Planning Commission and the Newington Republican Town Committee, as Chairman of the Newington Zoning Board of Appeals, as Grand Knight of the Rev. Edward Shaughnessy Council, Knights of Columbus, as Counsel for the Senate Majority in the 1973 and 1974 Connecticut State Legislative Sessions and as Counsel for the legislature’s Banks and Regulated Activities Committee. In 1975, he was nominated as Newington’s Republican candidate for mayor and in 1990 as the Republican candidate for Probate Judge for the Newington Probate District.
In the late 1960’s, he became active in community theatre and subsequently directed and/or appeared in more than one hundred community theatre productions throughout central Connecticut. He was a founder of Theatre One Productions, Inc. and Newington Community Television, Inc. and served as Secretary of those corporations, as well as Chairman of the Cox Cable Advisory Council and Vice Chairman of the Statewide Video Advisory Council.показать меньше