Jeannine Frisby LaRue, a barrier-breaking fixture in New Jersey politics since the 1980s, a veteran government official and civil rights leader with an insatiable appetite for new entrepreneurial ventures, has been at the epicenter of major public policy decisions since the 1970s.
LaRue began her career as a public school teacher and won races for the school board and township council in Winslow.
Gov. Jim Florio nominated her to serve on the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1991. She later served as vice president of governmental affairs for the St. Barnabas Health Care Systems, as vice president of public affairs at Rutgers University, and as deputy chief of staff to Gov. Jon Corzine. LaRue is a former interim chair of the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey.
She serves as chair of Garden State Equality and the Greater Mt. Zion Community Development Corporation and is the mother of Mercer County Commissioner Samuel Frisby. LaRue is a partner at Moxie Strategies.