Dominick_J._Ruggerio

Dominick J. Ruggerio

Dominick J. Ruggerio

American politician

Dominick J. Ruggerio (born December 19, 1948) is a Democratic member and president of the Rhode Island Senate, representing the 4th District since 1985. A member of the Senate since 1985, he was previously elected Majority Leader on November 10, 2010, having won election to his 14th term in the Senate on November 2, 2010. Ruggerio succeeded M. Teresa Paiva-Weed as Senate president after she resigned to take a private sector job. Dominick is from Rhode Island.

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Background

Dominick Rugerio graduated from La Salle Academy in 1966. Ruggerio then attended Bryant College and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1974 from Providence College. He is a retired administrator for the New England Laborers Labor Management Coop Trust, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Wanskuck Library, the Sons of Italy, Loggia Vittoria, and the DaVinci Center Development Committee.[1]

Rhode Island Senate

As Senate President, Ruggerio serves as an ex officio member of all standing Senate committees.

Ruggerio served as Majority Whip from 2003 through 2010. He has previously served as a member and as Vice Chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Transportation, and as a member of the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate Labor Committee, and the Joint Committee on Accounts and Claims. He also previously served as Deputy Majority Leader.

Ruggerio is the “Dean” of the Rhode Island General Assembly, meaning he has served longer than any other member of the RI Senate or House of Representatives.

Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Ruggerio was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1981 through 1984 and was a member of the House Labor Committee and House Corporations Committee.

He served as a policy adviser for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor from 1977 through 1981.

In January 2013, Ruggerio was one of five senators to file legislation seeking a voter referendum to define marriage as being between solely a man and a woman in the Rhode Island Constitution.[1][2]

Ruggerio was briefly redistricted to Senate District 6 in 2002 before being redistricted back in 2004.[3]

Personal life

Ruggerio resides in North Providence and is the father of two children, Charles and Amanda.

In November 1989, Ruggerio was charged with maliciously damaging the car of a Lincoln businessman, Nandy M. Sarda, in September of the same year. In February 1990, he was ordered to pay restitution and to stay away from Sarda.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Biography". Rhode Island Senate. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  2. [2]
    Frank Ciccone; Leonidas Raptakis; Marc Cote; David Bates; Dominick J. Ruggerio (January 22, 2013). "TO APPROVE AND PUBLISH AND SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS A PROPOSITION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE (MARRIAGE)" (PDF).
  3. [3]
    "Elections & Voting- Board of Elections". elections.ri.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  4. [4]
    "Ruggerio ordered to pay restitution in car damage". The Providence Journal. Providence. 3 February 1990. p. A-19.
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