Politics & Government
Borough Mayor Could Get Turnpike Job
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority board will vote on whether to appoint Bruce Harris as general counsel Tuesday.
Chatham Borough Mayor Bruce Harris could get a job as general counsel with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
The authority board will consider Harris' appointment at a Tuesday meeting, according to a story in the Star-Ledger.
Harris' possible appointment to the role comes two months after the by a vote of 7-6.
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Harris and fellow Supreme Court nominee Phillip Kwon were to fill vacant seats on the Supreme Court. Both men were voted down by the committee amid allegations from republican politicians that .
Harris, 61, currently works for Greenberg Traurig in Florham Park. He graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College in 1973 and also holds an MBA in finance and economics from Boston University, earned in 1979, and a law degree from Yale Law School, which he earned in 1992.
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If appointed, Harris would have been the first openly gay man to serve on the state Supreme Court. Kwon would have been the court's first Asian American.
Harris did not respond to requests for comments.
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