Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell will get his first chance to become Acting Governor on Thursday morning when Gov. Mikie Sherrill heads to Washington, D.C. for the National Governors Association winter meeting.
Caldwell will speak at the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Avalon, deliver the keynote address at Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens’ Black History Month Celebration in Newark, and speak at the African American Chamber of Commerce Black History Month Celebration in Garfield.
Sherrill will return to New Jersey on Friday evening.
Caldwell becomes the first ordained minister to serve as Acting Governor since the Rev. S. Howard Woodson in 1975. Woodson, the Assembly Speaker, was the pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton.