Hon. Leonard Lance (MPA '82)
Minority Leader, New Jersey State Senate
Leonard Lance was elected to the State Senate in November 2001. He served in the Assembly from February 1991 until going to the Senate.
Mr. Lance was born in 1952 and was raised in Hunterdon County. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; a law degree from Vanderbilt University; and a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.
The Senator served as the law clerk to the Warren County Court in 1977 and 1978. He was assistant counsel for county and municipal matters to Governor Thomas H. Kean from 1983 to 1990.
Mr. Lance is marred to Heidi A. Rohrbach. He is a trustee of the Newark Museum, of Centenary College in Hackettstown and of McCarter Theatre in Princeton. He was a member of the New Jersey Council on the Humanities during the Whitman Administration by appointment of the Governor.
Senator Lance is the third generation of his family to serve in the Legislature, following his great-uncle H. Kiefer Lance, and his father Wesley L. Lance.
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