Cathy Delneo

{{Short description|American librarian and swimmer}}

Catherine Delneo is an American librarian, the State Librarian of Vermont.{{cite web |title=Governor Phil Scott Announces Key Appointments Within the Agency of Administration |url=https://governor.vermont.gov/press-release/governor-phil-scott-announces-key-appointments-within-agency-administration |website=Office of Governor Phil Scott |publisher=State of Vermont |access-date=19 January 2022}}

Prior to this role, Delneo was the chief of branches at the San Francisco Public Library, a system in which she started working in 2006. Her first professional job was at the Somerset County Library System in Bridgewater, New Jersey, where she was a librarian for children and teens and later worked as a training coordinator for the system.{{cite web |title=Catherine Delneo, Our New State Librarian |url=https://libraries.vermont.gov/Catherine_DelNeo |website=Vermont Department of Libraries |publisher=Agency of Administration |access-date=20 January 2022}} As the state librarian, Delneo is also the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Libraries, overseeing a budget of $3.2 million in 2022.{{cite web | last=Allen | first=Anne Wallace | title=Vermont-Born Cathy Delneo Returns Home for a New Role as State Librarian - Books - Vermont's Independent Voice | website=Seven Days | date=2022-05-04 | url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/vermont-born-cathy-delneo-returns-home-for-a-new-role-as-state-librarian/Content?oid=35488266 | access-date=2022-05-23}}

Delneo was born and raised in South Burlington, Vermont. She has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Vassar College and a Master of Library and Information Science from Rutgers University. She played cello in the Vermont Youth Orchestra from grades 6 through 12. She is also an avid open water swimmer and ice swimmer.{{cite web | title=Section Ambassadors | website=Awesöme Orchestra Collective | date=2021-09-01 | url=https://awesomeorchestra.org/section-ambassadors | access-date=2022-01-19}}{{cite web | title=Ice Swimming With A Warm Heart | website=Swimmer Magazine | date= | url=https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=559f4a0e-b0df-4a01-ac81-6910847dd7ec | access-date=2022-01-20}} She was the first woman documented to complete a round trip swim around Angel Island in San Francisco in 2013, and has circumnavigated Manhattan in a 12-hour marathon.{{cite web | title=Cathy Delneo - Round Trip Angel Island | website=Marathon Swimmers Federation | date=2013-08-30 | url=https://marathonswimmers.org/swims/angel-island/2013/delneo/ | access-date=2022-01-19}}