Barbara Buono

Barbara Buono
Majority Leader of the New Jersey Senate
In office January 12, 2010 – January 10, 2012
Preceded by	Steve Sweeney
Succeeded by	Loretta Weinberg
Member of the New Jersey Senate from the 18th district
In office January 8, 2002 – January 14, 2014
Preceded by	David Himelman
Succeeded by	Peter Barnes
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 18th district
In office December 1, 1994 – January 8, 2002
Preceded by	Joanna Gregory-Scocchi
Succeeded by	Patrick Diegnan
Personal details
Born	(1953-07-28) July 28, 1953 (age 63) Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Martin Gizzi (2002–present)
Children	6
Alma mater	Montclair State University Rutgers University, Camden

Barbara A. Buono (born July 28, 1953) is an American politician. She served in the New Jersey Senate from 2002-2014, where she represented the 18th Legislative District. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in the 2013 election, she had lost in the general election to Republican incumbent Chris Christie.

Before entering the Senate, Buono served in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, the General Assembly, from 1994 to 2002, where she served as the Minority Parliamentarian from 1996-98. In the Assembly, Buono became the ranking Democrat on the Assembly Budget Committee. She was Democratic Conference Chair from 2004 to 2007. She served from 2010 to 2012 as the Majority Leader in the Senate, succeeding Stephen Sweeney.

Buono was born in Newark, grew up in Nutley, New Jersey and attended Nutley Public Schools, graduating from Nutley High School in 1971. Buono received a B.A. in 1975 from Montclair State College in Political Science and earned a J.D. in 1979 from the Rutgers School of Law–Camden.

Before joining the Metuchen borough council, she was a member of the Middlesex County Democratic Committee. While serving on the borough council, she served on the Metuchen Planning Board for one year in 1994.

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