Candace M. Ashmun, Consultant

Mrs. Ashmun started her career as physicist in an industrial chemistry laboratory in Bernardsville NJ. After three years she turned her attention to part time teaching and started covering local municipal meetings for the local newspaper. That experience led to an interest in the legal workings of government. She moved then to become a research director for the Upper Raritan Watershed Association. In 1975 she was recruited by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions to be their first full time Executive Director. In 1979 she was appointed by Governor Byrne to the unsalaried position of New Jersey Pinelands Commissioner and has served there since that time, having been re- appointed by five Governors including Governor McGreevey. In 1989 she was appointed to the State Planning Commission and served there during the adoption of the first State Development and Redevelopment Plan in 1992 Candy has served on Planning Boards, Board of Adjustment and Board of Education in Bedminster and Far Hills. She has been a consultant to the non-profit environmental community since 1982, and has convened the monthly New Jersey Environmental Summit since 1982. Mrs. Ashmun is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in Physics and minors in Philosophy and Government. Her awards include National Citizen Planner of the Year from the American Planning Association and the Smith College Medal as well as numerous statewide honors.

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