Jack J. Schrier

Jack J. Schrier has been a member of the Morris County Board of Freeholders since 1999. He was elected director of the board by his colleagues in 2004 and again in 2005. Prior to that, the Mendham Township resident was the board’s deputy director in 2002 and 2003.

Schrier is freeholder liaison to the Department of Planning and Development, which includes the county Planning Board, the divisions of Community Development and Transportation and programs to preserve open space, farmland and historic sites. He is also liaison to the Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority and the Park Commission, and he is a member of the Board of School Estimate for the County College of Morris and the Morris County School of Technology.

For 10 years, Schrier served as a member of the freeholder Budget Committee. He was a gubernatorial appointment in 2003 to the Highlands Commission Task Force, a panel charged with recommending ways of preserving the environmentally-sensitive Highlands Region. He has served as vice-chairman of the New Jersey Highlands Council since 2004. Schrier’s involvement in the governmental process dates back nearly 20 years when, in 1992, he became a member of the Mendham Township Committee, a position he still holds today.

Schrier served as mayor of the community in 1997 and 1998, and as deputy mayor in 1994, 1995 and 1996. A former trustee of the Mendham Township Library Board and Morris Tomorrow, he is a member of the 10 Towns Great Swamp Watershed Committee, a founding member of the Whippany River Watershed Action Committee and a former member of the New Jersey Fish and Game Council.

Freeholder Schrier has a BS in chemistry and is an independent marketing/communications consultant. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have one son and one daughter.

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