Maryann Civitello

Maryann Civitello worked for a year after college and then went to Fordham University where she received a Masters and Ph.D. in American History. She taught for 14 years at Rivier College where she was also the Dean of Continuing Education and the chair of the History, Political Science, and Paralegal Studies Department. Maryann resigned from the college when she was 43 years old and went to Boston College Law School and graduated in 1991. She then went to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. where she was a commercial real estate attorney for 27 years. Maryann focused on affordable housing work at Mintz, and in her last 20 years she headed a team doing acquisitions for CVS Pharmacy.

Maryann retired from Mintz on March 30, 2018. In her retirement, Maryann is continuing to do legal work for the Elizabeth Stone House (ESH). She has been on the board of ESH for over 20 years and has been the board chair for about 8 years. In 2013, she purchased a new building site for ESH, and since then has been doing the legal work to sell its existing building to another nonprofit and for the construction of its new building. Maryann has been working with ESH staff and a consultant from the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development on this project. She is working with an associate from Mintz to draft and review the documents required to sell ESH’s existing building and to construct the new one. ESH hopes to break ground for the new building in December and will sell its existing building then. Maryann has drafted a lease to allow ESH to stay in its existing building until the new one is completed because it must continue to house the battered women and their children it serves.

Maryann is also currently working for another nonprofit organization, the Friends of St. Bernard. This is an organization she helped create during the sexual assault scandal within the Catholic Church 12 years ago. Her work with the Attorney General’s Office and the Clerk of the SJC to dissolve the organization and give its remaining funds to St. Bernard’s is almost complete.