Steve Cassano

Steve is a past president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, immediate Past President of the National Association of Regional Councils, and is the former chairman of the Capitol Region Council of Governments, a position he held for eight years. Steve has served on multiple national and statewide task forces and boards that addressed critical, everyday issues such as transportation, energy, education, homeland security and the environment, and he continues to serve on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s SAFECOM Emergency Response Council.

Steve was born March 7, 1942 in Boston, three months into World War II, which meant his father would be away in the U.S. Army for four years. He lived with his grandfather, a dory fisherman who operated for decades out of Boston. His father became a fisherman, too, and the family lived in various fishing towns until settling in Nantucket in 1956. Steve graduated from Nantucket High School in 1959; his mother died in 1961, when he was 19 and was the oldest of eight children. Since his father was in a V.A. hospital for long-term care by then, he remained in Nantucket and cared for his family until 1966.

Steve graduated from Manchester Community College in 1968. He received a BA from Boston State in 1969, a Masters Degree in Urban Sociology from SUNY Albany in 1970, and an MSW from the University of Connecticut in 1975.

Steve enjoys being with his family, golf, travel, political trivia and the music of Johnny Cash and The Beatles.

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