Education
Rutgers University.
Rutgers University.
She served on the Roxbury Township planning board from 1984 to 1987, and was employed by the township as its deputy township manager from 1991 through 2002 and as its Township Clerk from 1988 to 2010. She has served on the Morris County Joint Insurance Fund and was the North Jersey Health Insurance Fund Commissioner. She was Deputy Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs from 2010 to 2012 in Governor Chris Christie"s administration.
During this time, she authored the Best Practices for Municipalities, which became a statewide model for identifying efficiencies in local government for reducing property taxes.
DeCroce attended Berkeley College and Rutgers University. Alex DeCroce, who had served in the Assembly since 1993, died on January 9, 2012, at the age of 75, shortly after the 214th Legislature had ended.
On January 25, 2012, BettyLou DeCroce, his widow, was selected by the Morris County Republican Committee to replace him in the Assembly winning 120 votes to former Kinnelon councilman Larry Casha who received 67 votes. DeCroce serves in the Assembly on the Commerce & Economic Development, Transportation & Independent Authorities, the Joint Committee on Public Schools, and the Intergovernmental Relations Commission.
District 26
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 26th District for the 2014-2015 Legislative Session are:
Senator Joseph Pennacchio
Assemblyman Jay Webber.
DeCroce is a realtor who is the president and owner of the firm European Research Area Gallo & DeCroce, Incorporated. She served as a member of the Township Council of Mine Hill Township from 1981 to 1983.
