Susan Bass Levin is the current President and CEO of Cooper University Health System's Cooper Foundation. Levin is a Democratic Party politician in

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, and previously served as First Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ). Levin also was Commissioner of the

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(DCA), serving in the cabinets of

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, Dick Codey, and

Jon Corzine Jon Stevens Corzine ( ; born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran fo ...

beginning in 2002. From 1988 to 2002, Bass Levin was Mayor of the Township of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Life and career

Susan Bass Levin is a graduate of the

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and

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. In December 1996, while Mayor of Cherry Hill, Bass Levin was a member of the New Jersey State Electoral College, one of 15 electors casting their votes for the Clinton/Gore ticket. A

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, she unsuccessfully challenged longtime U.S. Representative H. James Saxton in the 2000 election in which she garnered 42% of the popular vote in

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. Saxton retired his seat in 2009, and Bass Levin's friend, neighbor, and former Cherry Hill Councilman/State Senator

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was elected to the House post. On May 21, 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine named Bass Levin as First Deputy Executive Director of the

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.Governor Corzine Names Susan Bass Levin as Deputy Director of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

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press release dated May 21, 2007. Accessed May 30, 2007. In June 2007, Corzine also named Bass Levin to a five-year term on the New Jersey Local Finance Board. The Local Finance Board oversees the finances of local governments in New Jersey and debt financing issues for

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References

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