Jade Kohut Archives - New Jersey Globe

Dover school board to swear in one of state’s first openly trans elected officials

January 3, 2022 11:51 amJanuary 5, 2022 11:09 am

Daniella Mendez, a transgender woman who says she is the first openly transgender elected official in Morris County history and one of the first in state history, will be sworn in tomorrow to a seat on the Dover Board of...

Jefferson Republicans elect transgender municipal chairwoman

July 14, 2020 1:22 pmJuly 14, 2020 1:44 pm

Republicans in a Morris County conservative stronghold elected a 27-year-old transgender woman to chair their Municipal Committee on Monday. Republicans in Jefferson, a town that Donald Trump won by 25 points in 2016 and that Jay Webber won by roughly...