John L. Gizzarelli

John Laurence Gizzarelli, Jr., was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1938. He graduated from Quincy High School in 1956 and from Boston University in 1961, and joined the Navy in November 1961. In 1962 he was a Lieutenant assigned to Cryptologic Warfare (MOS 1615 -- Information Warfare), stationed in Spain, Morocco, and Japan, and later was assigned to Naval Research. He remained in the Naval Reserve through at least 1977.¹²

Gizzarelli worked on the 1969 team assembled by U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Flannery to design the Prosecutor's Management Information System, under co-directors Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work with project manager Bill Hamilton at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.

After the PROMIS project, Gizzarelli attended Georgetown University Law School, graduating in 1973. He subsequently worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. In 1973 he also served as general counsel at INSLAW.³

John L. Gizzarelli, Jr., died February 18, 2021, at age 88, at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Milton.⁴