Shelley Adler

Shelley Levitan Adler (born October 4, 1959, Chicago, Illinois) is a lawyer, former councilwoman, and the wife of former Congressman John Adler, who died in 2011. In 2012, Adler unsuccessfully sought election as a Democrat to the US House of Representatives in New Jersey's Third Congressional District.

Adler was born and raised in suburban Chicago. She graduated from the University of Illinois, then went to Harvard Law School. There, she met John Adler; the two served as co-managing editors of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After her graduation, she served as a judicial clerk for a Federal District Court judge in Washington, D.C. She married John Adler after her clerkship and moved with him to southern New Jersey; the couple eventually produced four sons. For about ten years, she practiced corporate law for a Philadelphia firm, then started her own legal consulting practice. She also served as president of the Cherry Hill PTA and as a councilwoman.

John Adler, a member of the Democratic Party, served in the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2009, representing the 6th Legislative District. In 2008, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, representing the Third District. In 2009, Shelley Adler resigned from the Cherry Hill council, citing time commitments related to John Adler's newly-taken seat in Congress, and took over his law practice.

After a single term, John Adler was defeated in 2010 by Jon Runyan, a member of the Republican party and a former football player. In March 2011, he contracted a staphylococcus infection which resulted in endocarditis leading to emergency surgery. He died on April 4, 2011.

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