Longtime Wilton resident, attorney, and civic leader Judy Zucker will be remembered by town leaders, colleagues, friends and family on Saturday, June 22, in a ceremony at the Comstock Community Center.
Zucker, who died at age 93 on Oct. 16, 2023, was tapped in her mid-eighties to head the building committee for Comstock’s renovation, completed in 2016. Saturday’s ceremony will include the naming of the lounge in the Community Center as the Judy Zucker Room to permanently honor her work on the three-year project and her decades of devoted public service.
The naming of the room was unanimously approved by the Board of Selectmen at an April meeting to “memorialize the legacy of our longtime friend, quintessential Wiltonian and model of exemplary, selfless public service to our community.”
In her First Selectman’s message of May 24, First Selectman Toni Boucher wrote that naming of a room at Comstock in Zucker’s honor is “especially appropriate because Judy was Chair of the Comstock Renovations Building Committee and saw the $10 million project through to completion on time and under budget.” She listed some of Zucker’s many public roles in Wilton across six decades, including serving multiple terms on the Board of Selectmen and Board of Education; chairing the Commission on Social Services, the Affordable Housing Oversight Committee, and the Elderly Tax Relief Committee; her many years on the board of directors of the Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging; and her work with the Kiwanis Club, including her tenure as the organization’s first woman president.
“Besides her work ethic, and her endless list of service and accomplishments, Judy was universally loved for her kindness, generosity, bipartisanship, and her skill for getting things done,” Boucher wrote. “Judy remained a woman who surprised and inspired all who knew her throughout her long life. She is sorely missed but her achievements and her soaring example of community service live on.”
Gathering for the remembrance will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Comstock Community Center (180 School Rd.), with the naming and the remainder of the program beginning at 11 a.m. Light refreshments will be served.