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Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus
As Supreme Advocate and General Counsel of the Knights of Columbus, John A. Marrella is the Order’s chief legal officer. He was elected to the Board of Directors and appointed Supreme Advocate on February 7, 2009. John is a Third Degree Knight and a member of Council 13500 in New Haven. Before coming to the Knights of Columbus, he spent most of his legal career working for the United States Department of Justice.
Marrella graduated from Amherst College in 1981 with a B.A. in History. Following graduation, he taught history at the secondary school level, first at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then at the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1990, he received his J.D from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
From 1991 to 1998, John served as a Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice Tax Division in Washington, D.C. In 1998, he joined the United States Attorney’s Office in New Haven, Connecticut. As an Assistant United States Attorney, John was responsible for investigating and prosecuting a variety of criminal offenses, including financial frauds, tax evasion, public corruption, environmental crimes, firearms offenses, and violent crimes. In 2007, John returned to the Tax Division to serve as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Tax Enforcement.
John has been married to his wife Amey for 16 years. They live in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and are members of St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven.
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