Published: February 6, 2023 | By Robert Storace
This profile on Jean Cronin, President of Hughes & Cronin, was published following the passing of the firm’s founder and longtime lead, Carroll Hughes. The 2023 legislative session was slated to be a very challenging year, as many of Hughes & Cronin’s clients were facing major political battles, especially the CT Package Stores Association (CPSA). Under Jean’s leadership, the firm succeeded on behalf of CPSA in 2023 and again in 2024.
“…For more than 40 years, lobbyist Carroll Hughes led Connecticut package stores in their fight with supermarkets and others on a number of issues, including Sunday sales and wine in grocery stores. Following his death in late 2021, Hughes’ business partner and wife, Jean Cronin, became the face of the package store industry. Now, in only year two leading Old Saybrook-based Hughes & Cronin Public Affairs Strategies and the Connecticut Package Stores Association, Cronin, 61, is facing perhaps one of her biggest political fights yet…”
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