Lucia Azzolina

Lucia Azzolina (born 25 August 1982) is an Italian politician and teacher. She was the Minister of Education during the Conte II Cabinet.

Biography

Lucia Azzolina attended the "Leonardo da Vinci" high school in Floridia, then she graduated in History of Philosophy at the University of Catania. She then attended the School of Specialization in secondary education (SSIS), for the qualification to teach history and philosophy.

After passing the final SSIS exam, she started teaching in the high schools of La Spezia and Sarzana. She obtained a specialization in teaching support at the University of Pisa. She then enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavia, where she graduated in December 2013 with a thesis on administrative law, teaching simultaneously in the schools. In January 2014, she became a tenured teacher at the I.I.S "Quintino Sella" in Biella. After graduating in Law, she carried out forensic practice dealing with school law.

For several years she was active within the ANIEF (National Association of Teachers and Trainers), first in Piedmont, and then operating in Lombardy. After resigning from the union, she returned to teach in 2017 at the I.I.S "Quintino Sella" in Biella, joining the staff of the school management.

In the general election of 2018, she was a candidate to the Chamber of Deputies in the "Piedmont 2" constituency among the ranks of the Five Star Movement. Initially she was not elected, however, on 20 March 2018, the Court of Cassation, following the exhaustion of M5S candidates in Campania, which were lower than the assigned seats, assigned the vacant seat in the "Campania 1" constituency to Lucia Azzolina, who was then proclaimed Deputy of the XVIII legislature.