Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick is serving his second term in the New Jersey General Assembly representing District 21, which includes 16 towns in Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union counties. He was selected by Republican Committee members from District 21 on February 18, 2003 to fill a vacancy in the Assembly left by the resignation of Thomas H. Kean, Jr. to join the State Senate. Assemblyman Bramnick officially joined the Assembly on February 24, 2003. He was elected to a full, two-year term in November, 2003. He was re-elected in November, 2005 and named the Republican Assistant Whip in the assembly caucus. Assemblyman Bramnick is a member of the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee and the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee.
The Assemblyman served on the Plainfield City Council from 1984 to 1991 and has been the Chairman of the Westfield Town Republican Committee since 2001.
A partner in law firm of Bramnick, Rodriguez, Mitterhoff, Grabas & Woodruff, based in Scotch Plains, Mr. Bramnick was admitted to the New York Bar in 1978 and the New Jersey Bar in 1984. In 2001 he served as President of the Inns of Court, an association of professional attorneys dedicated to teaching young attorneys. Assemblyman Bramnick also served as a guest commentator for Court T.V. in 1998.
He was an adjunct professor for the Rutgers University Graduate MBA Program from 1989 to 1990 and an Assistant Professor of Business Law at Rider University in Lawrenceville from 1984 to 1989.
Long active in community service, Assemblyman Bramnick presently serves on the Board of the Westfield College Mens Club and the Board of Trustees of the United Fund of Westfield. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Muhlenberg Hospital Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the Wardlaw Hartridge School in Edison.
Assemblyman Bramnick won the Funniest Lawyer in New Jersey contest at Rascals Comedy Club three years in a row and also serves as a comedy auctioneer on behalf non-profit organizations which have included the American Red Cross, the Diabetes Foundation of New Jersey, the Aids Benefits Committee, the Boys Scouts of America and the New Jersey State Symphony.
Assemblyman Bramnick graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with honors in political science from the Maxwell School of Political Science at Syracuse University in 1975. He received his law degree in 1978 from the Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, New York.
Assemblyman Bramnick resides in Westfield with his wife, Patricia Brentano, and his two children.
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