https://franoi.com Embrace Your Inner Italian Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:07:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://franoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-fra-noi-favicon-2025-32x32.jpg https://franoi.com 32 32 https://franoi.com/profiles/bob-larsen/ https://franoi.com/profiles/bob-larsen/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:07:02 +0000 https://franoi.com/?p=3161 Bob Larsen has served as commissioner of the DuPage County Board for the 6th District since 2010. He serves on the Health and Human Services (chairman), Environmental, Finance, Intergovernmental, Judicial & Public Safety, Public Works, and Technology committees. A partner in the law firm Cunningham, Meyer and Vedrine, he received the American Bar Association’s Award for Professional Merit. Commissioner Larsen is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve currently assigned to Reserve Judge Advocate Command Support Branch, Legal Services Support Section, Marine Corps Mobilization Command. He served on active duty during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and has earned the Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three times), Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal (four times), National Defense Service Medal and Armed Forces Reserve Medal. A Naval Justice School graduate, he finished first in a class of 40 Navy and Marine Corps officers. Commissioner Larsen has served as a Milton Township trustee and precinct committeeman, DuPage County Bar Association member and United Way of DuPage County board member. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and his juris doctor from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

]]> https://franoi.com/profiles/bob-larsen/feed/ 0 https://franoi.com/profiles/darlene-ruscitti/ https://franoi.com/profiles/darlene-ruscitti/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:21:07 +0000 https://franoi.com/?p=3141 Dr. Darlene J. Ruscitti has served as the regional superintendent of schools for DuPage County, and is running for re-election. She is the first woman elected to the position since its inception in 1854. Ruscitti has been a school board and PTO president, teacher, staff developer, administrator and the assistant regional superintendent of schools for DuPage County. Community and professional involvements include the DuPage County Strategic Planning Initiative, DuPage Work Force Investment, DuPage Youth Council, DuPage Juvenile Justice Commission, Congressional Conference on Civic Education and Illinois Task Force on Education Accountability. Awards and recognitions include the Leonardo da Vinci Award from the Illinois Order of the Sons of Italy in America, the Impresa Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans Women’s Division, Educator of the Year from the DuPage Mental Illness Association, as well as the Lamp of Learning Award, Outstanding Woman Education Leader of the Year for DuPage County award, Friends of Education Award and a Lincoln Public Service Fellowship. Ruscitti earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northeastern Illinois University and her doctorate from Loyola University.

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