Kathleen A. Donovan was elected Bergen County Executive in 2010 after serving five terms as Bergen County Clerk. She joined the NJTPA Board of Trustees in 2011.
County Executive Donovan previously served as a part-time public defender in her hometown of Lyndhurst from 1983 to 1988. From 1986 to 1988, she represented the 36th Legislative District in the General Assembly, and then served as Chair of the New Jersey Republican State Committee from June 1989 to February 1990.
In 1994 Donovan was appointed by then Governor Christine Todd Whitman as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she also served as Chairwoman. There, Donovan was a part-time official overseeing the bi-state agency charged with governing all New Jersey -- New York area ports and airports, including LaGuardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport, along with the World Trade Center and the PATH mass transit system between the two states. Donovan served as a Port Authority Commissioner until 2002 when her term expired.
Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, County Executive Donovan earned a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University-Newark and was awarded a J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. She lives with her son in Rutherford.
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