The Powerful WOMEN of New Jersey
SENATOR WEINBERG’S 2018 WOMEN POWER LIST
MAKE OUR STATE A BETTER PLACE! A Message From Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg
Many of the powerful women of New Jersey are well known. Others are not. They are the cabinet members who run the large and complex bureaucracies that make up our state government. They are the union leaders who advocate for our workers. They are behind-the-scenes schedulers, office managers, and Chiefs of Staff for some of New Jersey’s leaders. They are the lobbyists and influencers who articulate the many policies of New Jersey’s businesses and non-profits. They are business leaders, healthcare leaders, fundraisers, and political leaders.
But most important, they are advocates for all of us. As this list grows each year, let’s all celebrate their influence and their increasing stature. The “powerful women” of New Jersey make our state a better place.
Loretta Weinberg Loretta Weinberg Senate Majority Leader
“Here’s to all the grass roots women who led, organized, pushed to achieve the sea change we saw in our state in this election. From South Jersey Progressive Women north to the TeaneckWomen Together; to all the Indivisibles and the various #s For Change to the High School students who organized, here’s a great big THANK YOU for giving us a more hopeful future.”
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ADELE H. LATOURETTE ALISON ACCETTOLA ALLISON KOPICKI Director, NJ Senate Democratic NJ Economic Development HUNGER FREE NJ Office Authority
ALYANA ALFARO POST AMY DEGISE AMY MANSUE Office of the Governor Chairwoman, Hudson RWJBarnabas Health, County Democratic President of Southern Organization Region
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ANALILIA MEJIA ANDREA KATZ ANGELA DELLI SANTI NJ Executive Director, Chief of Staff, NJ Department of Labor Working Families Party Commissioner, NJ Human Services
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ANN TWOMEY ANNA MARTINEZ ANNETTE CATINO President, HPAE (retired) State Director, NJ Division Northfield Bancorp on Women
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ARLENE QUINONES PEREZ AUDREY MEYERS BABS SIPERSTEIN DeCotiis, FitzPatrick and The Valley Health System, LGBTQ Activist/Middlesex Cole/Hunterdon County President & CEO County Committee Democratic Committee, Chairwoman
BARBARA DEMARCO BARBARA GEORGE BARBARA GITENSTEIN Porzio Government JOHNSON Association of Governing Affairs Thomas Edison State Boards of Universities and University, Executive Colleges Director
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BARBARA ROSEN BERNADETTE MCPHERSON BETH DOHM 1st Vice President, HPAE Millenium Strategies Kaufman Zita Group
BIANCA JEREZ BRENDA FLANAGAN BRIANNA VANNOZZI Senate Democratic NJTV NJTV Majority Campaign
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BRIDGET DEVANE BRIGID HARRISON CANDY STRAIGHT Public Policy Director, Montclair State University Republican HPAE Fundraiser/Producer of Film “Equity”
CARMEN BENITEZ CAROL KATZ CAROLE JOHNSON Office of Senate President Katz Government Affairs, Commissioner, NJ Steve Sweeney Founder Department of Human Services
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CATHERINE MCCABE CATHERINE YAXLEY CATHLEEN D. BENNETT Commissioner, Vice President, Holy Name NJ Hospital Association, NJ Department of Medical Center President & CEO Environmental Protection
CECILIA ZALKIND CHRISSY BUTEAS CHRISTINA ZUK Advocates for Children of Gov't Relations, NJBIA Princeton Public Affairs NJ, President & CEO Group
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CHRISTINE NORBUT BEYER CHRISTINE SADOVY CHRISTINE SHIPLEY Commissioner, Board of Public Utilities NJ Senate Republican NJ Department of Children Office, Executive Director and Families
CHRISTINE STEARNS CLAUDINE LEONE DANA M. BURLEY Gibbons P.C. Government Affairs Clerk of the General Consulting, Principal Assembly
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DANIELLE ALPERT DEBBIE FRANCICA DEBBIE WALSH River Crossing Strategy Chief of Staff, Office of Center for American Group the Senate Majority Leader Women and Politics, Loretta Weinberg Director
DEBBIE WHITE DEBORAH BOZARTH DEBORAH HOWLETT President, HPAE New Jersey Association University of Delaware for Justice
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DENA MOTTOLA JABORSKA DIANE DU BRULE DIANE GUTIERREZ- NJ Citizen Action Director of Development, SCACCETTI ACLU-NJ Commissioner, NJ Department of Transportation
DR. LAUREN PECCORALO DR. SUSAN COLE ELAINE ADLER Leonia Action Alliance Montclair State University, Adler Aphasia Center Preisdent
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ELISE YOUNG ELIZABETH MAHER MUOIO ERICA DAUGHTREY Bloomberg NJ State Treasurer Office of Congressman Albio Sires
EVELYN LIEBMAN GAIL GORDON GINGER GOLD AARPNJ GOP Fundraiser NJEA
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GRACE STROM POWER HANNA MORI HETTY ROSENSTEIN Board of Public Utilities Office of Senator NJ Director, CWA Cory Booker
IDIDA RODRIGUEZ JACKIE CORNELL JANICE FULLER 1868 Public Affairs NJ Department of Health Office of Congressman Frank Pallone
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JANNA CHERNETZ JEAN PIERCE JEAN RIMBACH Tri–State Transportation Public Policy Staff, HPAE The Bergen Record Campaign
JEANETTE HOFFMAN JEANNINE L aRUE JENN SCIORTINO Marathon Public Affairs, Kaufman Zita Group NJ Department of President Treasury
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JENNIFER M. COFFEY JENNIFER MANCUSO JENNIFER TAYLOR Association of New Jersey Fair Share Hospitals NJ Assembly Democratic Environmental Commis - Collaborative, Executive Office sions, Executive Director Director
JENNIFER VELEZ JENNY DAVIS JILL SHORTWAY IPPOLITO RWJBarnabas Health PANYNJ Director of Appointments, Governor's Office
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JUDY DISTLER JUILIE DIAZ JULIE BUSBY Teaneck International Film Chief of Staff, Philadelphia Inquirer Festival, Co–Founder NJ Department of Labor
JULIE O'BRIEN JULIE ROGINSKY KAREN KOMINSKY WEDO Bergen County Democratic Strategist CLB Partners
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KARIN ELKIS KATE KING KATE MCDONNELL Optimus Partners Wall Street Journal Deputy Chief Counsel, Governor's Office
KATE ZERNIKE KATHERINE LANDERGAN KATIE BRENNAN The New York Times Politico Activist
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KATIE JENNINGS KATIE WERTHEIMER KAY LICAUSI Politico Planned Parenthood Hoboken Strategy Group, President & CEO
KELLY MOOIJ KELLY STEWART MAER KELLYANNE CONWAY NJ Audubon Society Capital Health Systems Adviser to President Trump
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LARA RODRIGUEZ LAUREL BRENNAN LAUREN LALICON Bergen County Board of NJ State AFL–CIO, Office of the First Lady, Chosen Freeholders, Clerk Secretary, Treasurer Tammy Murphy
LAURIE CLARK LAURIE MCCABE LEE KEOUGH New Jersey Association Office of Senator Joe NJ Spotlight of Osteopathic Physicians Vitale and Assemblyman and Surgeons Craig Couglin
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LESLIE HUHN LILO STAINTON LINDA METZGER Sussex County Democratic NJ Spotlight Secretary of the NJ Committee, Chairwoman Senate
LINDY WASHBURN LINH TAT LISA CHAPLAND The Bergen Record Politico NJ State Bar Association
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LISA MIZRAHI KAADO LISA TAKEUCHI-CULLEN LIZETTE DELGADO- Women’s Political Caucus Leonia Action Alliance/ POLANCO NBC TV Writer Vice-Chair, NJ State Democratic Committee, CEO, NJ Schools Development Authority
LORI SACKLER LORRAINE JOEWONO LYNDA HINKLE Bergen Indivisible, Bergen County Division Law Offices of Founder & President of Senior Services, Lynda L. Hinkle Director
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LYNN HAINES LYNN NOWAK LYNNE CHAIKEN Deputy Chief of Staff, Porzio Government Affairs NJ Activist Governor's office
MAGGIE MORAN MARCELA MAZIARZ MARCIA MARLEY Kivvit, Managing Partner Deputy Commissioner, Blue Wave NJ, President NJ Department of Health
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MARILYN DAVIS MARLENE CARIDE MARLENE KALAYILPARAMPIL Altice Commissioner, New Jersey Medical NJ Department of Banking Society and Insurance
MARSHA SHAPIRO AND MARY JO LAYTON MARY KAY ROBERTS LOUISE WALPIN Hackensack Meridian Riker Danzig Marriage Equality Health Activists/STAND Central NJ
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MARY NOONAN MARY WACHTER MELANIE WILLOUGHBY Chief of Staff, Office of Genentech Executive Director, Nj Congressman Chris Smith Business Action Center
MELISSA HAYES MELISSA HELMBRECHT MICHELE DIIORGI NJ Transportation Give Something Back Chief of Staff, Bergen Planning Authority County Executive, James Tedesco
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MICHELE JAKER MICHELLE CORYELL MICHELLE D eANGELO MBI-GluckShaw Office of Senate President Scheduler, Steve Sweeney Governor Murphy
MILLY SILVA NANCY CANTOR NANCY ERIKA SMITH SEIU Local 1199 Rutgers University Smith Mullin P.C./ Newark, Chancellor represented Gretchen Carlsen in Roger Ailes sexual harrassment case
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NICOLA BOCOUR PATRICIA DICOSTANZO PATRICIA TEFFENHEART Giffords Bergen County The NJ Coalition Against Superintendent of Sexual Assault, Executive Elections Director
PATTI MCGUIRE PAULA MADISON PEG SCHAFFER Princeton Public Affairs President, Bergen-Passaic Somerset County Chapter of the National Democratic Organization, Coalition of 100 Black Chairwoman Women
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PHOEBE HADDON PHYLLIS SALOWE–KAYE RASHEIDA SMITH Rutgers University-Camden, NJ Citizen Action, Dunton Consulting Chancellor Executive Director
RENEE TRABERT RHODA CHODOSH ROBIN MORANTE Office of the Senate Republican Operative NJ Judiciary, Minority Leader Tom Kean Chief of Court and Judicial Security
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ROBIN WALTON ROSI EFTHIM RUTH MANDEL Thomas Edison State Blue Jersey Eagleton Institute of University Politics, Director
SABEEN KALYAN-MASIH SAMANTHA MARCUS SARAH LECHNER Capital Impact Group NJ Advance Media RWJBarnabas Health
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SHANTÉ PALMER SHARI WEINER SHARON ANNE HARRINGTON Gov't Relations, Montclair Murphy McKeon P.C. NJ Casino Control State University Commission, Vice–Chair
SHARON BALSAMO SHEILA OLIVER SONIA DAS NJ State Bar Association Commissioner, NJ AMG Department of Community Affairs/Lt. Governor
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SONIA DELGADO STACY SCHUSTER STEPHANIE LAGOS Princeton Public Affairs Campaign Manager, Chief of Staff, First Lady, Bob Hugin for Senate Tammy Murphy
SUE FULTON SUSAN BASS LEVIN SUSAN K. LIVIO Commissioner, NJ Motor The Cooper Foundation, NJ Advance Media Vehicle Commission President & CEO
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TAHESHA WAY TAMMY MURPHY THERESA O’CONNOR Secretary of State of First Lady of New Jersey Bergen County Deputy New Jersey Superintendent of Elections
TOVAH GIDSEG TRACIE DESARNO TRICIA MUELLER Teaneck Women Public Strategies Impact CLB Partners Together
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TRISH GRABER TRISH ZITA VICTORIA BROGAN NJ Department of Banking Kaufman Zita NJ Hospital Association and Insurance
WENDY LAZARUS The Children’s Partnership, Founder
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