[1] Lucia Azzolina attended the "Leonardo da Vinci" high school in Floridia, then she graduated in History of Philosophy at the University of Catania.

On 13 September 2019 she was appointed Undersecretary of State to the Ministry of Education, University and Research in the Conte II Government.

In May 2019, the weekly L'Espresso published a series of articles highlighting her participation in the competition as a school manager, published on 24 November 2017 and held between 2018 and 2019 (ranking at 2542th out of a total of 2900 places available in a competition attended by 35 thousand teachers), despite being vested with the position of member of the Parliamentary Education Commission of the Chamber.

On 11 January 2020, again Massimo Arcangeli, in the newspaper La Repubblica, sustained that some paragraphs of the thesis presented by her at the time for the qualification to teach would have been copied from specialist texts.

Lucia Azzolina replied to the accusations noting that it is neither a thesis nor a plagiarism, the written being a simple end-of-trainee report.