[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO THE HON. JOHN S. MARTINEZ

 Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President. I rise today with great sadness 
to pay tribute to the late State Representative John S. Martinez, 
Deputy Majority Leader of the Connecticut General Assembly, who lost 
his life on October 10 in a tragic automobile accident. Mr. Martinez 
served New Haven's 95th Assembly District where he served on the 
Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee and the Judiciary Committee. He 
leaves behind a career of compassionate public service, particularly to 
the underprivileged.
  Mr. Martinez was born in 1953 in the City of New York to Puerto Rican 
parents. His family has resided in the City of New Haven for 39 years.
  From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Martinez developed and served as Project 
Director of the Hill Health Center/Grant Street Partnership, a 
Substance Abuse Intensive Day Treatment Program for women and men.
  Mr. Martinez worked for 15 years with the homeless and substance 
abusing population. He was very active on both local and state-wide 
level community service boards and commission, including the Community 
Action Agency in New Haven, LULAC Headstart, Community Partners In 
Action, Latino Youth, Inc., New Haven Parking Authority Commission and 
Children Center in Hamden.
  Mr. Martinez was also President of the National Hispanic Caucus of 
State Legislators, and a member of the Council of State Governments/
ERC, the National Criminal Justice Task Force/CSG, the Fighting Back 
Treatment Intervention Committee and the Connecticut Hispanic Addiction 
Commission, CHAC.
  My thoughts and prayers are with the Martinez family, and the people 
of Connecticut, who will all feel this great loss.

                          ____________________