Christine Serrano Glassner is stepping down from her role as the mayor of Mendham Borough in order to take a job in the second Donald Trump administration, she announced today in a letter to Mendham residents.
“It is with highly mixed emotions that I write to my Mendham Borough community today to let you know that I resigned my position as Mayor,” Serrano Glassner said. “My time of service is not over, as I share with you that I was offered and accepted a position to work in the White House. I am honored to have this opportunity to serve our nation once again and promise to bring the same dedication and compassion to this new job that I brought each day to our lovely town.”
Serrano Glassner told friends that she will join the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
“Part of my portfolio are mayors,” she said.
Serrano Glassner, a Republican who was first elected mayor in 2018 after previously serving on the borough council, has long had close ties to Trump’s orbit through her husband, Michael Glassner; Glassner is a longtime Trump aide who was the chief operating officer of Trump’s 2020 campaign.
During her campaign for U.S. Senate last year, Serrano Glassner utilized those ties to earn an endorsement from Trump himself. But most local party leaders in New Jersey preferred more moderate hotelier Curtis Bashaw, and he won the GOP primary 45% to 38% (and later lost the general election to Democrat Andy Kim).
Serrano Glassner’s departure for the Trump administration will also cause a special election this year in Mendham, a longtime Republican bastion that has veered towards Democrats in recent years, though Republicans remain dominant at the local level.
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