George Norcross

George E. Norcross III (born 1956) is an insurance executive, community leader and a Democratic Party leader in New Jersey.

Norcross currently serves as executive chairman of Conner Strong & Buckelew, a national insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm based in Marlton, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is chairman of the board of trustees for Cooper Health System and Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, and has served as a trustee since 1990. He led the effort to create the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, the first new medical school in New Jersey in 30 years, and to partner with the nationally renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center to create the MD Anderson Cooper Cancer Center. In October 2015, Norcross was named to the board of MD Anderson.

Norcross has been a prominent political leader in New Jersey for over 25 years, since he became chairman of the Camden County Democratic Committee in 1989, a position he held until 1993. For many years, he has been named one of the most powerful non-elected political figures in New Jersey by the website PolitickerNJ.com. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 he was named the second most powerful person in New Jersey after Governor Chris Christie by NJBiz.com. He is a member of the Democratic National Committee. He belongs to Mar-a-Lago, the club belonging to United States President Donald Trump.

Norcross was born in 1956 to George E. Norcross, Jr., the president of the AFL-CIO Central Labor Union of Camden and Gloucester Counties and his wife, Anne Carol. George Norcross, Jr. was active in the community of Camden and a board member of Cooper University Hospital. He served on the board of and was the chairman of United Way. His mother, Carol, died at the age of 84 in 2016. She was remembered as "a tireless advocate for senior citizens."

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