Margaret Nordstrom

Margaret Nordstrom took the oath of office as a member of the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders in September 1999. She was elected by her colleagues to lead the freeholder board as its director for three consecutive years – 2006, 2007 and 2008. That is a distinction that no freeholder in recent memory has been afforded.

Under Nordstrom's leadership, the freeholders began the practice of taking some of their public meetings "on the road," conducting some of those spring, summer and fall evening sessions in communities across the county. That practice continued in 2009 and it is the case again in 2010.

Nordstrom is freeholder liaison to the newly established Freight Railroad Advisory Committee and the Department of Information Services, which includes the Morris County Library. She also chairs the freeholder Budget Committee and is a member of the Facilities Review Committee and the county's Aviation Advisory Committee, which she helped establish.

During her time on the board, Nordstrom has also been freeholder liaison to the County College of Morris, the School of Technology and the Morris County Park Commission. She is a former mayor of Washington Township, serving in that post from 1994 to the end of 1999, and she was also a member of the governing body in the community from 1991 to 2002.

Nordstrom is a founding member of the Washington Township Land Trust and a member of the board of trustees of the Arts Council of the Morris Area and the New Jersey Historic Sites Council.

She has a BA and a Masters degree in political science and is a former ballet instructor. Freeholder Nordstrom and her husband, Bill, reside in Long Valley, Washington Township.

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