Elizabeth Maher Muoio
| Elizabeth Maher Muoio | |
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| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 15th district |
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Assumed office February 5, 2015 Serving with Reed Gusciora |
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| Preceded by | Bonnie Watson Coleman |
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| Spouse(s) | Joseph Muoio |
| Children | three |
| Residence | Pennington, New Jersey |
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B.A. Wesleyan University J.D. Georgetown University |
| Occupation | Director of Economic Development (Mercer County) (2008–), Chair of the Mercer County Democratic Party (2010–) |
| Website | Legislative web page |
Elizabeth Maher Muoio is an American Democratic Party politician from Mercer County, New Jersey. She currently serves as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, from the 15th legislative district having been appointed and sworn in on February 5, 2015. She had also served as a councilwoman from the borough of Pennington and a Mercer County Freeholder.
Muoio's first elected office that she won was serving on the Pennington Borough Council from 1997 until 2001. In 2000, she was elected to the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders and was re-elected in 2003 and 2006. During her final year on the Freeholder board, she served as Vice-Chair of the Freeholder Board. In February 2008, County Executive Brian M. Hughes appointed Muoio to become the Director of Economic Development for the county; she resigned her Freeholder position upon taking this job. While serving in this position, Muoio was elected to be Chair of the Mercer County Democratic Committee in 2010 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2014.
After 15th district Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman was elected to Congress in 2014, Muoio was speculated to become the appointed replacement to her in the Assembly. Muoio and her county committee strongly backed Watson Coleman in the Democratic primary for the Congressional seat in 2014. Though initially other candidates announced intentions to run for the nomination to be appointed to the Assembly seat, members of the Mercer and Hunterdon County Democratic committees unanimously chose Muoio to fill the seat. She was sworn in on February 5, 2015 in the Assembly chamber with her husband, two of her sons, and various local officials present. In the Assembly, she serves on the Regulated Professions Committee and the Women and Children Committee. She and running mate Reed Gusciora won the June 2015 Democratic primary and will seek election to a full term in the November 2015 general election.
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