UNICO Delaware District 1 President Richard A. DiLiberto, Jr. was elected National Second
Vice-President of UNICO National, America's largest Italian-American service organization at
UNICO's national election in Orlando, FL on July 24, marking the first time in UNICO's 104
year history a Delawarean was elected to national office.
Mr. DiLiberto is a litigation partner in the Wilmington, Delaware law firm of Young Conaway
Stargatt & Taylor, LLP where he has been co-chairman of the government relations committee,
chairman of the paralegal committee, the personal injury litigation section, and the continuing
legal education committee.
Before joining the law firm in 1987, he was law clerk to Judge Vincent Bifferato of the Del. Superior Court. He regularly represents families whose loved ones have been injured or killed by another’s negligence. Much of his work has been on behalf of abused children.
DiLiberto served in the Del. State House of Representatives from 1992-2002, where he was a
member of the Joint Finance, Judiciary, Public Safety, Corrections, Education, Health & Human
Development, Substance Abuse and House Rules Committees. He was appointed to the
Commission on Del. Courts 2000, the Del. Courts Planning Committee, the Supreme Court Task
Force on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts, and the Del. Healthcare Commission’s
Diabetes Task Force.
DiLiberto is chairman of the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture, and a
trustee of UNICO Foundation, UNICO’s charitable arm, which provides grants for cancer
research and prevention, food banks, homeless shelters, mental health, Cooley’s anemia
treatment, and university Italian studies. In 2023, UNICO awarded him its national Philip Mazzei
Americanism Award, named for the Italian patriot who befriended Thomas Jefferson and first
proposed the great phrase “All men are created equal” anchored in the Declaration of
Independence in 1776. He received the Del. State Bar Association’s Daniel L. Herrmann
Professional Conduct Award in 2015, Christopher Columbus Monument Committee’s “Man of
the Year” Award in 2017; DSBA’s Distinguished Legislative Service Award, and Widener Univ.
School of Law’s Outstanding Alumni Service Award in 1999, the Bloomsburg Univ. Young
Alumnus of the Year Award in 2002, and the H. James Conaway, Jr. Pro Bono Award in 2010.
He is immediate past chairman of the board of directors at his alma mater, MMI Preparatory
School, Freeland, PA.
DiLiberto is a past president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Assn. He is also an adjunct faculty
member for Delaware Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. DiLiberto earned his
J.D. (cum laude) from Delaware Law School, Widener University, where he served on the law
review and was editor-in-chief of the Del. Law Forum; and his B.S. in Education (cum laude)
from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Faith (Petrovich) DiLiberto,
reside in Newark, Del. They have three daughters, lawyers Amanda J. Buckworth, and Ashley B.
DiLiberto; and Aria M. DiLiberto, a teacher; and two grandchildren. To learn more about
UNICO and its charitable causes, including St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Cancer and
Alzheimer's Research and Prevention, Cooley's Anemia, food banks, homeless shelters, mental
health services, Italian anti-bias efforts, and student scholarships see www.UNICO.org
