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Scioli, head Baltimore port spokeswoman, dies

Scioli, head Baltimore port spokeswoman, dies

   Judith Scioli, communications director for the Maryland Port Administration, died Jan. 19 of breast cancer. She was 59.

   According to a Jan. 21 Baltimore Sun obituary, Scioli began her career in the early 1980s as freelance writer. By 1990, she had become vice president of editorial operations for Connection Newspaper Group, a publisher of 16 weekly newspapers.

   In 1994, she served as spokeswoman for Montgomery County, Maryland’s Executive Neal Potter. In 1996, she served a two-year period as spokesman for then Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening. Scioli moved over to the Maryland Port Administration’s communications office in 1998.