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Kathleen A. Donovan
An attorney who was in
private practice for 15 years, Donovan is a member of the Bergen County Bar
Association. From 1983 to 1988, she served as part-time public defender for
her hometown of Lyndhurst. She also was a part-time staff attorney with the
Bergen County Office on Aging from 1981 to 1984. From 1986 to 1988, she
represented the people of Southern Bergen and Passaic Counties as a member of
the New Jersey General Assembly from the 36th Legislative District. During
her term in the Legislature, she served as Vice-Chair of the State Regulatory
Efficiency Committee and as a member of the Environmental Quality Committee.
The Regulatory Efficiency Committee reviewed the fiscal impact of proposed
legislation and looked for and cut red tape in state government. From June, 1989 to
February, 1990. Donovan was the first woman to chair the State GOP. In 1991,
she was the Republican Chair of the New Jersey Legislative Reappointment
Commission which drew the new legislative district lines after the 1990
census. In 1993, then
Governor-elect Whitman asked Donovan to serve as a member of her Transition
Team. Donovan has been a Girl
Scout Leader and President of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scout
Council of Bergen County and also has served on the boards of the Meadowlands
YMCA and Shelter our Sisters, a shelter for battered women. A resident of
Rutherford, Donovan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, cum
laude, from Rutgers University, Newark and received her Juris Doctor from
Cleveland State University's John Marshall College of Law in Ohio. She is the proud mother
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