Jane Williams-Warren | |
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| Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey | |
| In office October 10, 2017 –July 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Ruby Cotton (interim mayor) |
| Succeeded by | Andre Sayegh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1947 (age 77–78) |
Jane Williams-Warren (born 1947) served as the second female African-American mayor of Paterson,New Jersey,from 2017 to 2018.
Williams-Warren was born in 1947 [1] in Paterson where she was also raised. [2] She attended Eastside High School. [3]
She started working for the city of Paterson in 1966. [4] She served as City Clerk of Paterson for 24 years and retired in 2014. [4] [2] She was the first African-American to serve as the president of the Municipal Clerks’Association of New Jersey. [2] On September 29,2017,after being coaxed out of retirement,she was appointed mayor of Paterson by the City Council in a 5-4 vote [2] [5] to replace interim mayor and City Council president Ruby Cotton who had replaced former mayor Jose “Joey”Torres after his conviction for corruption. [1] Williams-Warren was seen as a politically neutral choice compared to Cotton,Paterson's first African-American female mayor,who had succeeded to mayor by virtue of being council president. [1] She was sworn in on October 10,2017. [5] She agreed to serve as mayor until the next mayor was sworn in after the general election in May 2018. [2] While mayor,she deferred her $97,500 state pension while she collected her $119,000 salary. [1] [2]
On July 1,2018,after the general election,she was succeeded by Andre Sayegh,Paterson's first Arab-American mayor. [1] [6]