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JOSEPH V. DORIA,
JR.
Joseph V. Doria, Jr. is commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, appointed in 2007 by Governor Jon S. Corzine.
As Commissioner, Doria oversees the Divisions of Local Government Services, Codes & Standards, Community Resources, Housing and Fire Safety, as well as the Division on Women, the Office of Smart Growth and the Center for Hispanic Policy, Research & Development. He also chairs the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority, the New Jersey Housing & Mortgage Finance Agency and the Council on Affordable Housing.
Doria has more than 30 years experience in state and local government. Prior to joining DCA, he served as mayor of Bayonne for nine years and represented Hudson County in the State Senate. Before becoming a Senator in 2004, he served 12 consecutive terms in the New Jersey General Assembly. Chosen as Speaker of the Assembly by his colleagues for the 1990-1991 legislative session, Doria later served as Minority Leader from 1992 to 2002. He sponsored more than 260 bills that were signed into law and authored major pieces of legislation in the areas of education, consumer protection, healthcare, and transportation. He was responsible for measures to decrease state bureaucracy, especially in the areas of environmental protection and healthcare, and sponsored laws giving New Jersey’s public colleges and universities greater autonomy. He also wrote legislation allowing new mothers to stay in the hospital 48 hours after giving birth.When he left the Assembly, Doria had been the longest serving member of that body at the time and he was the longest serving Democratic leader of the Assembly in recent history. In the Senate, Doria served as vice chair of the Labor and Economic Growth Committees and was also a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. In addition, he was a member of the Joint Committee on the Public Schools, chair of the Commission on Business Efficiency in Public Schools, and vice chair of the Senate Education Committee.
An educator by training, Doria began his career as a social studies teacher at Holy Family Academy in Bayonne before joining St. Peter's College as an administrator and adjunct faculty-member. He served as a trustee on the Bayonne Board of Education for four years, three of them as board president, and served as Hudson County Board of Education President from 1978 to 1979. He has taught college-level courses at St. Peter’s College and Rutgers University. Doria has taught the Eagleton Seminar in American Politics for Eagleton Fellows since 2003.
Doria has a bachelor’s degree from St. Peter’s College, a master’s degree from Boston College and a doctorate in education from Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. He is a trustee of both St. Peter's College and Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Bayonne.
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