LILLIAN BURRYFREEHOLDER
Lillian Burry has served on the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders since 2006. In 2008, she served as Freeholder Director, the first woman in County history to be elected to this position. Under her leadership, the Board made many improvements to the County government, including strict oversight of spending and budget practices. Importantly, the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders was the only county government in the State of New Jersey that did not raise taxes in 2008. Lillian Burry served three terms on the Colts Neck Township Committee, where she served as mayor, deputy mayor and committeewoman. In Matawan, Lillian Burry was the first woman elected to the Borough Council. Freeholder Burry serves on the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Planning Authority. She has secured 400 acres of Open Space and Recreational Facilities and saved the Veterans Hospital. She has been in the forefront of objecting to the privitization of housing on N.W.S. Earle.
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ROSEMARIE PETERSSURROGATE
Rosemarie D. Peters, Esq. is responsible for the administration of the services offered by the Surrogates Court. In addition, she serves as Clerk to Superior Court, Chancery Division, Probate Part, and Clerk to Family Part for adoptions. Surrogate Peters is a member of the NJ Supreme Court's Judiciary-Surrogate Liaison Committee and a member of the executive board of the Constitutional Officers Association of NJ. She is a graduate of the
Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
Surrogate Peters was a member of the Middletown Township Committee for 18 years, four of them as Mayor and three as Deputy Mayor. She is also a former member of the Middletown Township Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Adjustment. She initiated and chaired the township’s Open Space Preservation Committee and is the founder, past president, and a current trustee of the Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council.
She is a past member of the Executive Board and Legislative Review Committee of the NJ State League of Municipalities.
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