Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (born July 26, 1971) is an American
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, February 15, 2018. Accessed February 15, 2018. "Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, a Democrat, was sworn in Thursday to fill the state Assembly seat vacated by Elizabeth Muoio, whom new Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated to become the next state treasurer.... She had to resign from the Trenton council to serve in the Assembly because state law bans dual office-holding."
She served in the Assembly as the Deputy Majority Leader from 2020-2021 and has been the Constituent Outreach Chair since 2022.
Early life
A resident of
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. She graduated from Trenton State College (now
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) with a bachelor's degree in sociology and from Central Michigan University with a Master of Science in administration. She has worked for the
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in its Division of Housing and for the Mercer County Board of Social Services.Councilwoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson Biography City of Trenton. Accessed February 11, 2018. First elected in 2010, Reynolds-Jackson was elected to a second term in office to represent Trenton's East Ward for a four-year term running from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2018, receiving 42% of the votes cast in the ward among the three candidates running for the seat. As a Democratic county committee member, she was involved in political campaigns across Mercer County in 2016 and 2017. She was elected by her peers in October 2014 to serve as the City Council's vice president, though two councilmembers voted against the appointment, claiming that the position of vice president had been created improperly.
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to serve as the Treasurer of New Jersey. She resigned from office effective January 15, 2018, as well as from her position as director of economic development for Mercer County to begin work in the executive branch, in advance of her confirmation by the New Jersey Senate; her resignation came less than a week after being sworn into office for her second full term in the Assembly. Reynolds-Jackson was chosen at a February 10 Democratic county convention from Mercer County and
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'', February 10, 2018. Accessed February 11, 2018. "Instead of running for a third term, Reynolds-Jackson will soon resign from Trenton City Council and get sworn in at the New Jersey Statehouse as the next General Assembly member who represents the capital city and surrounding suburbs of the 15th Legislative District. That is because Reynolds-Jackson received the blessing of the Democratic Party’s committee members on Saturday to fill the vacancy left by former Assemblywoman Liz Muoio (D-Mercer/Hunterdon), who resigned from office last month to work in Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration as state treasurer."
In 2020, she was one of the primary sponsors of Assembly Bill 4454 (now N.J.S.A. 18A:35-4.36a) which requires a curriculum on diversity and inclusion to be a component of the school curriculum for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Committee assignments
Committee assignments for the 2022—23 Legislative Session session are:Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D) New Jersey Legislature. Accessed April 27, 2022.
*Commerce and Economic Development, Vice-Chair
*Budget
*Higher Education
*Joint Committee on the Public Schools
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*Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)
*Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli (D)