Professional Bio
Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr.
Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr. is an attorney in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and serves as the Register of Deeds of the Berkshire Middle District.
Nuciforo served with distinction in the Massachusetts State Senate, representing the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts from 1997 to 2007. Over the course of that ten-year period, he served as chair of the Joint Committee on Financial Services, the Joint Committee on Banks & Banking, and as a member of the budget-writing Senate Ways & Means Committee.
As a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, Senator Nuciforo was honored to be chosen Legislator of the Year by the Massachusetts Municipal Association, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Massachusetts Association of Jewish Federations, and the Environmental League of Massachusetts.
State Senator Nuciforo meets with U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy at the Crowne Plaza in Pittsfield.
Other groups such as the Massachusetts Equal Justice Coalition, the Massachusetts Library Association, the Affordable Care Today Coalition, the YMCA of Western Massachusetts, the Berkshire County Regional Employment Board, the Western Massachusetts Camp Directors Association, the Berkshire Central Labor Council and the Massachusetts Alliance Education Collaborative have recognized and honored him for his leadership and accomplishments in the legislature.
Andrea Nuciforo with Pittsfield School Committee Chairman Kathleen Amuso
While chair of Financial Services, Nuciforo gained a comprehensive understanding of some of Massachusetts’s most heavily-regulated industries, including mortgage lending, state-chartered savings banks and auto insurance. As a member of the Senate Way & Means committee for seven years, Nuciforo has worked on dozens of appropriation and bond measures, including those relating to transportation, school buildings, and the Commonwealth’s annual operating budgets.
The Berkshire legislative delegation meets at Elder Services of the Berkshires in 2005. (l-r; Rep. Guyer (D-Dalton); Rep. Speranzo (D-Pittsfield); Sen. Nuciforo (D-Pittsfield); Rep. Pignatelli (D-Lenox); Rep. Bosley (D-North Adams)).
Nuciforo has considerable international experience, having traveled in more than twenty countries, including Switzerland, China, Russia, Taiwan, Japan, Cuba, and numerous nations throughout Europe.
Nuciforo graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1986), and from the Boston University School of Law (1989). He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Frank H. Freedman of the United State District Court, District of Massachusetts, from 1989 to 1992. He has practiced privately in Boston and the Berkshires, and is admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and New York.
He is a member of the board of trustees of the Colonial Theatre Inc. in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and is active in numerous non-profit organizations.
