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| Women Leaders J-L |
| Cynthia
M. Jacob, Esq. |
| Partner |
| Collier,
Jacob & Mills |
| Corporate
Park III |
| 580 Howard Avenue |
| Somerset,
NJ 08873 |
| Phone:
(732) 560-7100 |
| Fax: (732)
560-0788 |
|
1996-97 president of NJ STATE BAR
ASSOCIATION, also served as
first vice president 1994-95, treasurer 1992-93, secretary 1991-92> Partner
in law firm, specialist in commercial litigation, also management defense of
employment, age, sex discrimination claims, represented State of NJ in
controversial sex harrassment suit against official in NJ
DEPARTMENT OF LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY settled 1999> Reportedly under
consideration as potential nominee as federal court judge> Elected 1992 as a
director, Flemington National Bank> Previously partner, NORRIS, MCLAUGHLIN & MARCUS 1975-87; acting standing master,
director of civil practice and director
of appellate research, NJ Administrative Office of the Courts 1972-75; deputy
and assistant public defender 1967-72> Also member, Lawyers Advisory
Committee, Federal Bar of NJ; member, NJ Supreme Court Committee on Professional
Ethics> L.L.B. Yale Law School, A.B. Vassar College. |
| Ellen Oran Kaden |
| Senior
Vice President - Law &
Government Affairs |
| Campbell Soup Company |
| Campbell
Place |
| Camden,
NJ 08801 |
| Phone: (856) 342-4800 |
| Joined CAMPBELL SOUP CO. as Senior Vice President - Law and Government Affairs April 1998, reports to DALE F. MORRISON, President and CEO> Prior to joining Campbell, spent 12 years with CBS, most recently as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary> Joined CBS 1986 in Office of General Counsel, became Deputy General Counsel 1989 and General Counsel 1991, appointed Senior Vice President of CBS 1993 and Executive Vice President 1994> Previous to CBS, practiced law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in NY City, and also Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University> B.A. 1972 Cornell University, M.A. 1973 University of Chicago, J.D. 1977 Columbia University School of Law> Married to Lewis B. Kaden, governor’s counsel to Governor BRENDAN T. BYRNE, 1975-76. |
| Jane M.
Kenny |
| Commissioner |
| New
Jersey Department of Community Affairs |
| 101 South Broad Street |
| PO
Box 800 |
| Trenton,
NJ 08625 |
| Phone: (609)
292-6420 |
| Fax: (609)
633-6420 |
| Appointed as commissioner, NJ
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS June 1996, previously chief of Governor’s
Office of Policy and Planning responsible for research, development and
implementation of Governor's policy initiatives> Prior to appointment to
Governor's staff, employed as vice president of corporate and community affairs
for Beneficial Management Corporation> Also served on staff of Governor THOMAS
H. KEAN, first as director of constituent relations 1983-86 and later as
cabinet secretary 1986-90>
Instructor at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY in
English literature and composition 1979-83>
Former chairwoman, NJ Committee for the Humanities> Cousin of
Democratic Senator BERNARD KENNY of
Hudson County> Holds master's degree in city & regional planning from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, B.A. Trinity College, also attended University
of Exeter, United Kingdom, for two years. |
| Karen
Kessler |
| Partner |
| Evergreen
Partners |
| 2014
Route 22 East |
| Scotch
Plains, NJ 07076 |
| Phone: (908)
322-1100 |
| Fax: (908)
322-5802 |
| e-mail:
kkessler@evergreenpr.com |
|
Partner with Mindy Cohen in consulting firm specializing in fundraising, event
planning, public relations and marketing for political, non-profit clients and
membership organizations> Served as key fundraiser for former Governor JAMES
FLORIO and consultant to NJ DEMOCRATIC
STATE COMMITTEE> Governor Florio insider, executive director, 1989 Florio
and Democratic campaign finance committee, named as one of six people on
post-election transition team, served as special assistant to Governor during
search for Cabinet, senior staff evaluating candidates following 1989
election> Appointed by Governor Florio as first woman board member of NJ
SPORTS & EXPOSITION AUTHORITY> Other current or past boards include
ATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEM; HORIZON
BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD OF NJ; also director, TOTAL-TEL CORP., NASDAQ-listed communications firm; OVERLOOK
HOSPITAL; Garden State Arts Center Foundation; Drumthwacket Foundation; trustee
for scholarship funds at PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY and MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY>
Previously vice president for corporate communications, American Stock Exchange
1985-89; executive director, Northeastern Regional Office, Democratic National
Committee 1981-85; director of grants, Stewart R. Mott Foundation; marketing
director, Blue Cross-Blue Shield of NJ> Awards include Gold Key Award from
Public Relations Society of America; Leadership Award from EXECUTIVE
WOMEN OF NJ> B.A. Vassar College 1978. |
| Jaynee
LaVecchia |
| Associate
Justice |
| Supreme Court of New Jersey |
| Brennan
Court House |
| 583
Newark Avenue |
| Jersey City, NJ 07306 |
| Phone: (201) 659-6600 |
| Fax: (201) 656-5537 |
|
Confirmed as associate justice of NJ
SUPREME COURT January 2000 following nomination by Governor CHRISTINE
TODD WHITMAN> Previously serving in Governor’s cabinet as Commissioner
of NJ DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND INSURANCE since
August 1998> Prior position as Director of NJ Division of Law in NJ
DEPARTMENT OF LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY since August 1994, started legal
career with Division in 1979 and served through 1984> From 1984-89 in private
law practice, and served in Office of Governor's Counsel first as assistant
counsel and later as deputy chief counsel for Governor THOMAS
H. KEAN> Married to prominent attorney MICHAEL
COLE, who served as chief counsel to Governor Kean, now partner in DECOTIIS,
FITZPATRICK, GLUCK
HAYDEN & COLE law firm> In 1989 appointed by Governor Kean to
position of Director and Chief Administrative Law Judge, held title from 1989
until rejoining Division of Law in 1994> Born in Paterson October 9, 1954>
J.D. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY School of Law, B.A. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY. |
| Barbara
L. Lawrence |
| Executive
Director |
| New
Jersey Future |
| 114 West State Street |
| Trenton,
NJ 08608 |
| Phone: (609)
393-0008 |
| Fax:(609)
393-1189 |
| e-mail: njfuture@njfuture.org |
|
Co-founder and now executive director of NJ
FUTURE, non-profit progressive land-use advocacy organization supporting
regional, statewide planning initiatives> Formerly senior vice president, REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION; associate director, Governor's Commission
on Science and Technology; also spent seven years in
private sector at TRW> Chair, Hoboken Waterfront Corporation,
City-created group charged with developing consensus plan for controversial mile
along Hudson River's edge> Vice president, Board of Trustees, All Saints
Episcopal Day School; board member, CENTER
FOR ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ISSUES> 1999 president of National Growth
Management Leadership Project, national association of state and metropolitan
smart growth advocates> A.B. University of California, Berkeley (Phi Beta
Kappa) and M.P.A. Woodrow Wilson School, PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY. |
| Susan S. Lederman, Ph.D. |
| Proffessor |
| Gateway
Institute for Regional Development |
| Kean University |
| Morris Avenue |
| Union, NJ 07083 |
| Phone: (908)
527-2000 |
| Professor at Kean University, past Visiting Fellow at
Woodrow Wilson School of PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY,
also named 1997 to head new Gateway Institute to focus on economic development in
northeastern NJ financed by KEAN
UNIVERSITY, Union County, other nonprofit organizations> Elected as 1990-91 national president, League of Women
Voters; Past President, NJ LEAGUE OF WOMEN
VOTERS 1985-89> Research interests, published books, articles include
fiscal policy, education, women's issues, policy innovation> Ph.D., M.A. RUTGERS
UNIVERSITY, B.A. University of Michigan. |
| Diane
Legreide |
| Commissioner |
| New Jersey Casino Control Commission |
| Arcade Building |
| Tennessee Avenue and Boardwalk |
| Atlantic City, NJ 08401 |
| Phone:
(609) 441-3422 |
| Fax: (609)
441-3522 |
|
Appointed 1994 by Governor CHRISTINE TODD
WHITMAN as one of statutorily-required Democratic commissioners on NJ CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION, served as deputy director of Senate
Democratic legislative staff prior to appointment> Joined Senate Democratic
staff as deputy director January 1986 when Democrats still held majority control
of Senate> 1981-86 served as Executive Director of L.E.G.A.L., lawyers
lobbying group, later legislative assistant to Senate President JOHN
RUSSO and Assemblyman JOHN PAUL DOYLE,
also served three terms as commissioner of Ocean County Election Board>
Campaign experience includes serving as co-cordinator of Senate Majority '87 and
'91 campaigns, coordinating 10th legislative district campaigns, statewide co-oordinator
for Carter for President 1976> Serves as
trustee for Point Pleasant Beach Education Foundation and Atlantic County Economic Development Corporation 2000; serves
on boards of Atlantic City Historical Waterfront Foundation, Atlantic County
Women's Hall of Fame and LPGA Urban Youth Golf Program> B.A. KEAN
UNIVERSITY. |
| Susan
Bass Levin |
| Mayor |
| Township of Cherry Hill |
| 820 Mercer Street |
| Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 |
| Phone: (856)
488-7878 |
| Fax: (856)
661-4719 |
|
Elected mayor 1987, re-elected three times after serving as council president
1986-87> Democratic candidate for Congress in 2000, challenging incumbent
Republican JAMES SAXTON> Considered
1997 gubernatorial campaign, decided not to enter race, endorsed Congressaman ROB
ANDREWS, second-place finisher to JAMES
MCGREEVEY in Democratic primary election> Served as elector from NJ for
Clinton-Gore in 1996 Electoral College> Senior adviser in 1993 JAMES
FLORIO gubernatorial campaign, organized South Jersey Women's Coalition for
1996, 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign, Clinton delegate to 1996, 1992 Democratic
National Conventions> Member, NJ State Democratic Finance Committee, founding
member of PAM's List, fundraising organization for women legislative
candidates> Attorney in Ballard, Spahr & Andrews law firm, former partner
with husband in Cherry Hill law firm> Former President, NJ ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS; delegate, 1986 White House
Conference on Small Business> Boards include NJ ALLIANCE FOR ACTION; SOUTH JERSEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL> Awards
include Douglass College Women of Achievement Award, Philadelphia Business
Journal Women of Distinction Award, Women’s Political Caucus Barbara Boggs
Sigmund Award and Woman of Year from National Council of Jewish Women, NJAWBO,
and Camden County Girl Scouts> J.D. George Washington University Law School,
B.A. University of Rochester. |
| Judy C.
Lewent |
|
Senior
Vice President & Chief
Financial Officer |
| Merck & Co. |
| One Merck Drive |
| PO Box 100 |
| Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889 |
| Phone: (908)
423-1000 |
|
Senior vice president and chief financial officer of MERCK
& CO. since January 1993; vice president for finance and chief financial
officer 1990-93; vice president and treasurer, 1987-90; executive director of
financial evaluation and analysis, 1985-87; assistant controller of Merck
Research Laboratories, 1983-85; director of acquisitions and capital analysis,
1980-83> Previously with PFIZER Pharmaceuticals,
divisional controller, 1976-80; Norton Simon, senior financial analyst, 1975-76;
Bankers Trust, assistant vice president, 1974-75; E.F. Hutton, associate,
corporate finance, 1972-74> Member - Ad Hoc Working Group on Economics of
Pharmaceutical Industry; Finance Committee-Financial Executives Institute;
Goucher College Board of Trustees; Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees;
Advisory Council Member-Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Alumna
Representative-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Committee for
Sloan School of Management; Advisory Panel Member-MIT Program on Pharmaceutical
Industry Advisory; Panel
member-Office of Technology Assessment, Government Policies and Pharmaceutical
R&D; Member - Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Financial Section
Steering Committee; Advisory Board Member-Stanford University, Center for
Economic Policy Research> M.S. (management) Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Sloan School of Management 1972, B.S. Goucher College 1970. |
| Marilyn Ware Lewis |
| Chairman |
| American
Water Works Company |
| 1025
Laurel Oak Corporate Center |
| Voorhees, NJ 08043 |
| Phone: (856)
346-8200 |
|
Chairman of largest investor-owned water company in US and parent of NEW JERSEY-AMERICAN WATER CO. based in Haddon Heights>
Grandfather, John Ware, company founder, father also served as chairman, Ware
family of Lancaster PA holds majority voting control of stock> Also serves on
boards of SOUTH JERSEY INDUSTRIES;
Penn Fuel Gas Co.; and CIGNA Corp.> Founder of company which owned and
operated summer schools for learning disabled children, and member of advisory
committee of Janus School, school for learning disabled students and advisory
committee of Shelter for Abused Women in Lancaster PA> Board member,
Pennjerdel Council, PA Chamber of Business and Industry, Pennsylvanians for
Effective Government, held various posts in PA county, state and national
Republican committees, served as chairman of Tom Ridge for Governor Committee in
PA> Former newspaper editor and publisher, worked as freelance writer,
editor, and public relations consultant, occasional contributing writer to
Philadelphia Inquirer and to Business Philadelphia magazine. |
| Jennifer
H. Lobo |
| President |
| Biotechnology
Financial Corporation |
| One
Palmer Square |
| Princeton, NJ 08542 |
| Phone: (609)
683-1318 |
| Fax: (609) 921-1509 |
|
Former partner with DOMAIN ASSOCIATES
venture capital firm, founded new firm BIOTECHNOLOGY
FINANCIAL CORPORATION 1990 to serve as broker, consultant on financing,
acquisitions of biotechnology companies, assets> Former vice president and
partner in venture operations with Rothschild investments in NYC, responsible
for selecting and managing biotechnology investments> 1981-84 special partner
and founder of Vista Ventures supervising health care investments> Conducted
research on DNA and bacteria at University of California> M.B.A., University
of Chicago, B.A. University of California at Berkeley. |
| Virginia
Long |
| Associate Justice |
| Supreme Court of New Jersey |
| PO Box 970 |
| Trenton, NJ 08625 |
| Phone:
(609) 292-4837 |
| Named June 1999 by Governor CHRISTINE
TODD WHITMAN to succeed retiring Justice Alan Handler on NJ Supreme
Court> Superior Court judge since 1978 appointment by Governor BRENDAN T.
BYRNE, presided over Civil, Criminal & Family Law cases; 1983 to 1984
General Equity Judge for Mercer, Somerset and Hunterdon vicinage; 1984 promoted
by then Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz to Appellate Division, served for 15
years and authored over 2000 opinions until confirmation to Supreme Court>
Prior to becoming judge, served as Deputy Attorney General; litigation associate
at PITNEY, HARDIN, KIPP AND SZUCH; director of NJ Division of Consumer
Affairs and Commissioner of NJ Department of Banking during Byrne
Administration> Married to Jonathan D. Weiner, a partner of Fox
Rothschild of Philadelphia and Lawrenceville> Graduate of Dunbarton College of Holy Cross and RUTGERS
UNIVERSITY Law School (captain of Appellate Moot Court team and winner of
competition prizes for Best Oralist and Best Brief). |
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