Kristin Corrado


Kristin Corrado is an American Republican Party politician who represents the 40th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate. She was sworn into office on October 5, 2017. Before her appointment to the New Jersey Senate she served a Passaic County Clerk for seven years.

Personal and early life

A resident of Totowa, New Jersey for her entire life, Corrado attended St. James School before moving on to Paul VI High School. Corrado attended East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law. First elected as Passaic County Clerk in 2009, Corrado was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2014.

New Jersey Senate

Corrado was appointed fill the seat left by former Senator Kevin J. O'Toole, who had resigned from office on July 1, 2017, to become a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Tenure

In early 2018 Corrado lead a fight to block Governor Phil Murphy's nomination of Assemblywoman Elizabeth Maher Muoio to be Secretary of Treasury. She also evoked Senatorial courtesy to block the nomination of Tahesha Way for Secretary of State. Later that year, in June, Corrado and Kip Bateman were among two senate Republicans that voted in favor of the 2019 Fiscal Year budget. She sponsored a bill alongside Senators Paul Sarlo, Gerald Cardinale, Loretta Weinberg, and Joseph Lagana that would push a special election to the following year if a vacancy for the County Sheriff, Clerk, or Surrogate posts if the vacancy occurs 70 days before election day. She was among 6 other Senate republicans to back Senate President Steve Sweeney's 2020 Fiscal Year budget

Committee Assignments

Each of the 40 districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. New Jersey's 40th Legislative District encompasses parts of Bergen, Passaic, Essex, and Morris Counites. The current representatives from the 40th District to the 219th New Jersey Legislature are :

New Jersey Senate

2017

With the retirement and eventual resignation of Kevin J. O'Toole Corrado was appointed and sworn into his senate seat on October 5, 2017 making her the incumbent in the general election. Democrats ran Thomas Duch. Despite the fact that, statewide, Democrats did very well and Thomas Duch did much better than the Democratic nominee against O'Toole in 2013, Corrado still won by 12 points. She won all counties in the district.

Passaic County Clerk

2014

Corrado ran for re-election as county clerk in 2014. She beat Democratic nominee Jeffery Gardner by a little over 1,000 votes.

2009

In 2009 incumbent Clerk Karen Brown retired instead of running for a second term. The Democratic nominee was Keith Kazmark, who lost to Corrado by over 3,000 votes.