Education
Ciaccio graduated in New Orleans at the age of fifteen from the Roman Catholic Brother Martin High School, then Saint Aloysius High School.
Ciaccio graduated in New Orleans at the age of fifteen from the Roman Catholic Brother Martin High School, then Saint Aloysius High School.
From 1982 to 1998, he was a judge of the New Orleans-based Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit. He received his undergraduate degree in 1947 from Tulane University. In 1950, he obtained his law degree from Tulane University School of Law.
After law school, he served in the United States Air Force as an officer in the Judge Advocate General"s Corps.
His tour of duty included Morocco. After his military duties, he launched his law practice in New Orleans.
He then prevailed in a special election in 1962 to succeed Daniel L. Kelly, who resigned after only two years in the legislature upon his own election to the New Orleans City Council. Four years later, Ciaccio succeeded Kelly on the city council.
Known for his analytical mind, Judge Ciaccio served for sixteen years on the Fourth Circuit Court.
Even after his retirement from the bench, he was an ad hoc judge, including service under then Chief Justice Catherine Doctorate. Kimball on the Louisiana Supreme Court. In 1952, he wed the former Mary Jane Bologna. Son Christopher Ciaccio died in 1990 at the age of twenty-seven while he was nearing completion of a degree in computer science.
He died in New Orleans at the age of eighty-eight.
Interment will follow in All Saints Mausoleum.
He was the District 9 member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1962 to 1966, when he began a sixteen-year stint as the District East member of the New Orleans City Council.