Education
Rutgers University.
Rutgers University.
From 2002 to 2008, Van Drew represented the 1st District in the General Assembly. In November 2011, Van Drew defeated Republican challenger David South. DeWeese by a margin of 24,557-20,857. He was reelected in the 2013 elections defeating Upper Township Republican businesswoman Susan Adelizzi Schmidt by 20 points.
Van Drew serves in the Senate on the Community and Urban Affairs Committee (Chair) and the Budget Committee.
In the Assembly, Van Drew was a prime sponsor of the Fair Market Drug Pricing Acting to provide reduced prescription drugs to eligible low-income consumers. He has also sponsored legislation to address New Jersey"s nursing shortage.
Van Drew served on the Dennis Township Committee in 1991, and as Mayor from 1997 to 2003 and from 1994 to 1995. Van Drew served on the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1994 to 1997.
He was the Dennis Township Fire Commissioner from 1983 to 1986.
Van Drew has served as president of the New Jersey Dental Society and a board expert of the New Jersey Board of Dentistry. As a Cape May County Freeholder, Van Drew campaigned for an Atlantic Cape Community College campus in Cape May County, a goal that was realized with a groundbreaking ceremony for the campus in late 2002. Van Drew graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery from Rutgers University and was awarded a Doctor ol Dental Surgery degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He is a resident of Dennis Township, New Jersey.
District 1
Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 1st Legislative District for the 2014-2015 Legislative Session are:
Assemblyman Bob Andrzejczak (Doctorate), and
Assemblyman R. Bruce Land (Doctorate)
Election history.