Chuck Cutolo
Board Member
Chuck Cutolo has been a resident of Westbury for more than thirty years. Born in 1951, Chuck grew up in Albertson and East Williston. He’s a graduate of Hamilton College, where he majored in Government, and of Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar. Chuck worked for seventeen years on Capitol Hill, including almost twelve years as legislative director for former Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich).
Returning to Nassau County in 1994 for family reasons, Chuck did a brief stint in the Office of Public Policy of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. In 1996, he began working for the Democrats on the Nassau County Legislature in the capacity of minority counsel. He became the majority counsel in 2000 after the Democrats won control of the Legislature in the election of 1999. In commenting on Chuck’s leaving the County Legislature at the end of 2001, Newsday editorialized that “his hard work and integrity made him an antidote to cynicism about public servants.”
Most recently, until his retirement in 2016, Chuck was General Counsel for Governmental and Media Relations for Nassau Community College. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Clockwork Theatre Company, which produced off, off Broadway plays in New York City, and is currently a member of the advisory board for the Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy & International Relations at Hofstra University. Chuck has also helped coordinate Westbury Arts' "Westbury's Got Talent" programs. A self-described "poetic-essayist," he's the author of three books of essays. Chuck has been married to Denise Pratesi since 1985.