2021: Thanks to the lobbying efforts from members of the

Thanks to the lobbying efforts from members of the Bipartisan Coalition for Women’s Appointments, CAWP receives a state appropriation to create the first-ever New Jersey database of appointed officials, tracking appointees by gender and race/ethnicity and a new database of elected officials by race and ethnicity. The New Jersey Senate passes a bill co-sponsored by Senators Loretta Weinberg and Linda Greenstein directing CAWP to conduct this work with the support of the governor and secretary of state’s offices. (Legislation is pending in the Assembly as of December 2021.)