Barbara A. Zuras

Candidate for Board of Education

Barbara is a parent of children attending Avon Public Schools, a taxpayer, former trial lawyer and now an appellate attorney. She and her husband, Richard Neuhoff, and their children moved to Avon in 2001.  During her legal career, Barbara has provided legal representation to children and families regarding civil rights violations, special education and product liability issues.  She also specialized in litigation regarding health issues of women, and safety concerns over nuclear power plants in California, Ohio and Three Mile Island.  In the Avon Public Schools, she has served as a volunteer in a variety of capacities including organizing Veterans' Day celebrations, serving as a parent member of Pine Grove School's anti-bullying committee, and assisting in the efforts of the Pine Grove staff to reach out to its neighbors and the community at large.  For the past three years, Barbara has worked as a volunteer for the Trust House, tutoring Hartford Public School children while their parents learn to speak English.  She and her family are very grateful to the Avon community for its strong support of Avon Public Schools.  She hopes to serve the community by encouraging it to consider new ways to solve persistent school and town problems.  Barbara believes that inter-generational solutions to school issues offer the best chance of long term success and possess the added bonus of enhancing our sense of a shared community. 

This web site is paid for by John R. Logan, Esq., Treasurer of the Democratic Town Committee of Avon.