PROVIDENCE — The state Senate plans to reconvene next week to weigh the confirmation of judges, magistrates, the state fire marshal and six new members of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation board.

This year’s General Assembly session recessed in June, but the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to reconvene on Tuesday to consider the judicial and executive branch nominees, Senate spokesman Greg Pare said.

The full Senate is then scheduled to reconvene next Wednesday to consider confirming the nominees, Pare said. The Senate will not take up any other business, he said.

Pare detailed the Senate’s plans yesterday after Governor Carcieri nominated Robert M. Ferrieri to fill a Workers’ Compensation Court judgeship that has been vacant for nearly a year. If confirmed by the Senate, Ferrieri would replace Judge John Rotondi Jr., who retired on Sept. 28, 2007.

So what took the governor so long?

“I am not aware of any internal protocols that govern the timing of the process,” Carcieri spokeswoman Amy Kempe replied yesterday. “But certainly the governor wanted to look at all the potential candidates before nominating an individual.”

Kempe noted that the governor was able to choose from the most recent list of finalists, which included Ferrieri, or from previous lists that the Judicial Nominating Commission generated for Workers’ Compensation Court vacancies over the past five years.

While there might not be any internal protocols regarding the timing of nominations, a section of state law says, “The governor shall fill any vacancy within 21 days of the public submission by the commission.”

But in the past, a spokesman for Carcieri has said, “We have always taken the position that the so-called deadline is only advisory.”

In December, the Rhode Island Bar Association called for the governor to get moving on judicial nominations, saying, “Further delay in unwarranted, unjustified and ill advised.” In March, Carcieri nominated three state judges, including one for a Superior Court seat that had been vacant for more than a year.

In announcing yesterday’s nomination, Carcieri said, “With more than 20 years of experience in workers’ compensation law, Bob Ferrieri’s vast knowledge and understanding of the law will best serve the Workers’ Compensation Court.”

Ferrieri, 48, of Johnston, is a partner in the Providence law firm of Lombardi & Ferrieri, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation, real-estate closings and personal injury cases. From 1986 to 2001, he was an associate with John N. Calvino Law Associates, where he concentrated in workers’ compensation and personal injury cases. And before that, he worked at the Law Office of John Andrew Thompson.

Ferrieri graduated from Providence College in 1982 and from Suffolk University law school in 1985. He is a member of the Workers’ Compensation Bench/Bar Committee.

A Workers’ Compensation Court judge receives a lifetime appointment and a base salary of $132,062.

In addition to Ferrieri, the Senate will consider confirming the following:

• Anthony Capraro Jr. as a District Court judge. Capraro, chief of the trial division for the public defender’s office, would replace retired Judge Patricia D. Moore.

• Colleen M. Hastings as a Family Court magistrate on the “truancy calendar.” Hastings, who is a part-time assistant legal counsel to Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, would replace Mary E. McCaffrey, a sister of Senate Judiciary Chairman Michael J. McCaffrey, D-Warwick. Mary McCaffrey recently became a District Court judge.

• Armando O. Monaco II as a Family Court magistrate. He would replace George N. DiMuro as a magistrate in the “child support/reciprocal court.”

• DiMuro as Family Court’s administrative magistrate in “child support/reciprocal court.” He would replace Debra E. DiSegna, who recently became a Family Court judge.

• Ronald J. Pagliarini as Family Court administrator. Pagliarini, now the Family Court chief of staff, would replace F. Charles Haigh, who retired July 31.

• John Chartier as state fire marshal. Chartier, the former chief of the Warwick Fire Department, would replace Frank Sylvester, who left the position in February to return to his prior job as fire chief in Lincoln’s Lime Rock Fire District.

• Six new members of the board that oversees the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, which operates the state’s Central Landfill in Johnston: Carole Bell, former state Republican Party Chairman Bradford Gorham, Jeffrey C. Douglas Sr., retired state police Maj. Michael P. Quinn, retired Lincoln Town Administrator Sue Sheppard, and Woonsocket Councilman John F. Ward. Carcieri nominated the new members in March following controversies and a preliminary audit signaling possible mismanagement and corruption.

• Bradford Kopp as a member of the Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission.

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