Township Committee
Deputy Mayor Scott Spitzer
Mr. Spitzer has been a member of the Township Committee since 2008. He
serves as the Township Committee liaison to the Cable TV Task Force,
the Golf Commission, the Shade Tree Commission, and the Friends
of the Kennedy-Martin-Stelle Farmstead.
Prior to being elected to the Township Committee, Mr. Spitzer served
on the Bernards Township Planning Board for seven years, including
five years as its Chairman. He also served on the Township's Open
Space Advisory Committee.
Mr. Spitzer is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
for Bowne & Co., Inc., in New York City. Bowne is a New York
Stock Exchange-listed company, the oldest public company in the
United States listed on the exchange, and was established in 1775. Bowne
is a global leader in providing services that help companies produce
and manage their financial and regulatory filings, and investor, marketing
and business communications. Bowne is the world's largest financial
printer and a major document on demand and personalized communications
provider.
He has extensive business and corporate legal experience in senior
in-house legal and regulatory positions on Wall Street with a stock exchange
(the American Stock Exchange), an investment banking firm (The First Boston
Corporation), and an American Stock Exchange-listed international trading
company (Balfour Maclaine Corporation). He has also served in senior
in-house legal positions in the medical device industry, as Senior Director
and Senior Counsel of U.S. Surgical Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed
medical device manufacturer and world leader in minimally invasive surgical
devices in Norwalk, CT, and as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary of Vital Signs, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed medical device manufacturer
in the respiratory, anesthesia and critical care markets located in Totowa,
NJ.
He has practiced law for 31 years and is a member of the bar in New York
and Pennsylvania and admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts
for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is
a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association,
the New York City Bar Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel.
He served as a Justice of the Peace in Westport, CT, and was elected
to his high school's Alumni Association Hall of Fame. He has also
served as a Lafayette College Alumni Admissions Representative in
Central New Jersey for several years and serves on its national board
of alumni admissions representatives.
Mr. Spitzer graduated Lafayette College, A.B. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta
Kappa in 1973. He is a graduate of the Cornell University Graduate
School of Business and Public Administration with a M.P.A. in 1976, and
a graduate of the Cornell University Law School with a J.D. in 1977. During
graduate school he was a recipient of a United States Environmental Protection
Agency Water Pollution Fellowship. He also studied at the
Universidad de Valencia, in Valencia, Spain.
He has been a township resident for ten years and has been married
to Toby Spitzer for 25 years. They have two sons, both of whom graduated
from the Bernards Township public schools.
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Deputy Mayor Scott Spitzer
Mr. Spitzer is serving as deputy mayor of Bernards Township in 2009.