DON’T ACTIVATE: The Scoccimaro File

NAME: Ralph O. Scoccimaro

AGE: 58. Born November 1954, in Hoboken, N.J.

POSITION: Attorney with private practice and associate judge with Municipal Court in Albany.

FAMILY: Scoccimaro is married to the former Susan Wacaser, a registered nurse, from Bainbridge. His daughter, Annamarie, graduated from The Darlington School at Rome and is a sophomore at Davidson College in North Carolina, where she is a pre-vet major. His son, Nicholas, is a senior at The Darlington School. He plays varsity lacrosse and is a ROTC candidate.

EDUCATION: Educated in public schools in New Jersey and Florida. Received a BA in 1980 at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Received law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.

MILITARY: Joined the Marine Corps in 1971. After training, Scoccimaro was ordered to Naval Security Group command in Southeast Asia where he worked in the cryptologic field against Russian and North Vietnamese communications threats. He monitored North Vietnamese communication, non-voice, during major American offenses.

CAREER: Scoccimaro went to work for the Georgia Migrant Project in Tifton in 1984. He transferred to Georgia Legal Services in 1985 and worked under Judge Willie Lockette for two years, mostly doing consumer defense work. He went into solo practice in 1985 and formed Brown, Phillips, and Scoccimaro PC. It later became Brown and Scoccimario.