West Bergen Tea Party Presents Bergen County Administrator Edward Trawinski
“Bumping Rights” Civil Service Reform
Join us 7 pm, Tuesday, September 10 , At the Larkin House , 380 Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff (1/4 mile North of Stop & Shop on the right)
Prior to accepting his current position as Bergen County Administrator in January of 2011, Ed Trawinski was a partner with the law firm Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP, a preeminent regional law firm located in Florham Park which celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2012. He is a past member of the firm’s management committee. His practice centered on all types of real estate, land use and corporate transactions, financing, construction, environmental matters and leasing. He served as a Bergen County Condemnation Commissioner. Mr. Trawinski, a licensed, instrument-rated pilot, also practiced in the area of aviation regulatory law.
Mr. Trawinski joined the Kean Administration in 1988 as Assistant State Commerce Commissioner. While in Trenton, he directed programs designed to promote job growth and economic development and supervised the overall administration of the Department of Commerce and its offices of Economic Research, Division of Development for Small, Women and Minority Owned Business and Legislative Liaison. Mr. Trawinski served as the lead negotiator for New Jersey’s team for entities moving into the NJ waterfront development areas and chaired or served on numerous commissions, boards and authorities to help promote the economic development of New Jersey small business and enterprise zones. He served as special counsel to the Peapack Gladstone Land Use Board, counsel to the Boonton and Hasbrouck Heights Planning Boards, special counsel to the Teaneck Planning Board and counsel to the NJ Managed District Association and the Passaic River Coalition. He served as an Assistant Counsel to the NJ Planning Officials. Mr. Trawinski has also published and lectured extensively on corporate and land use topics.
Committed to community and political activities, Mr. Trawinski has served as a Fair Lawn Council member and Mayor, and currently serves as Deputy Mayor. He is a Trustee of St. Anne’s Church and is a member of the parish finance council. He is also a recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the New Jersey Department of Commerce Division for the Development of Women, Minority Owned, and Small Businesses. He is a founding member and past Chairman of the Morris County Economic Development Corporation, where he served on the Board of Directors. He currently serves as a member of Bergen County Economic Development Commission and on various boards and authorities as the County Executive’s Designee.
Mr. Trawinski is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and before the United States Tax Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Bergen and New Jersey State Bar Associations.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts in history from Fordham University, Mr. Trawinski received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law in 1974 and a Masters of Law in Taxation from NYU Graduate Law School in 1979. A lifelong resident of Bergen County, Mr. Trawinski is the father of three children and proud grandparent of four grandchildren. He and his wife Diane reside in Fair Lawn.
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