Amy Handlin

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Field	Value
state_assembly1	New Jersey
district1	13th
term_start1	January 10, 2006
term_end1	January 14, 2020
predecessor1	Joseph Azzolina
alongside1	Samuel D. Thompson
Declan O'Scanlon
Serena DiMaso
successor1	Gerard Scharfenberger
office2	Deputy Minority Leader of the New Jersey General Assembly
term_start2	2007
term_end2	January 14, 2020
leader2	Alex DeCroce
Jon Bramnick
predecessor2	Office Established
office3	Member of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders
term_start3	January 1, 1990
term_end3	January 10, 2006
successor3	Anna C. Little
birth_date
spouse	David Handlin
children	Two
party	Republican
alma_mater	Harvard University (BA)
Columbia University (MBA)
New York University (PhD)
residence	Middletown Township, New Jersey
website	Legislative Website
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Amy H. Handlin (born January 28, 1956) is an American Republican Party politician who served in the General Assembly, where she represented the 13th Legislative District from 2006 to 2020.

Education and career

Handlin earned a B.A. in 1977 from Harvard University, an MBA from Columbia University in 1979, and a Ph.D. in Marketing from New York University in 1991. She was an associate professor of marketing at Monmouth University until her retirement in 2019 and was also a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Public Issues.

Monmouth County Politics

Handlin was elected to the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1989 and re-elected in 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2004. Previously, she served as deputy mayor and township committeewoman in Middletown Township. Handlin is a former commissioner on the New Jersey State Commission on Higher Education and chair of Monmouth County's Communities Against Tobacco Coalition. Named 2003 Elected Official of the Year by the Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce, she has also been honored by the American Cancer Society of New Jersey, Prevention First, 180:Turning Lives Around and many other public health organizations for her work to reduce teen smoking. Handlin has also served on the boards of the New Jersey League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women, among others. She is a past recipient of the Legislative Award of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the Humanitarian Award of Brandeis University Women, the Rose and Scroll Award of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners, and numerous other citations for civic leadership. Handlin, the author of the 1998 book Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman? Why Women Still Aren't Making It to the Top in Politics, and the books Be Your Own Lobbyist, (Praeger, 2010) and Government Grief (Praeger 2011). She has also been a columnist for the New Jersey Reporter, a public-affairs magazine. A founding member and former chair of the Monmouth County Advisory Commission on Women, Handlin is a member of the national board of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and vice president of community relations for the Jewish Federation of Greater Monmouth County. A past chair of the Central Jersey Israel EXPO, she has also co-chaired the United Jewish Communities' Northeast Leadership Conference.

New Jersey Assembly

Handlin ran against fellow Republican Joseph Azzolina whom she defeated in the June 2005 GOP primary. Handlin was one of the main proponents of the ban enacted in 2007 on consumption of alcohol in the PNC Bank Arts Center parking lots. After incumbent 13th District Senator Joe Kyrillos announced he would not seek re-election in 2017, Handlin initially intended to run for his seat, putting her into a contested primary with fellow Assembly member Declan O'Scanlon. However, Handlin ultimately dropped her Senate bid, and instead ran for re-election to her Assembly seat, which she retained in the general election.

For the 2019 general election, Handlin announced she would not run for another term and was retiring from the Assembly. Her current term concluded in 2020 and she was succeeded by Republican Gerard Scharfenberger.

Committees

Higher Education
Regulated Professions

Personal life

Handlin resides in Middletown Township, where she lives with husband David, son Daniel and daughter Rebecca.

Electoral history

Assembly

References

[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=254 Assemblywoman Handlin's legislative web page], [[New Jersey Legislature]]. Accessed February 21, 2008.
[https://www.app.com/story/news/politics/monmouth-county/2018/10/08/amy-handlin-retire/1568366002/ Amy Handlin retiring from New Jersey Assembly], [[Asbury Park Press]]. Accessed June 5, 2019.
"Deputy Republican Leader Amy H. Handlin - New Jersey Assembly Republicans". New Jersey Assembly Republicans.
[http://examiner.gmnews.com/News/2000/1229/Front_Page/04.html "Freeholder Handlin honored for anti-tobacco efforts"] {{webarchive. link. (January 26, 2005 , ''Allentown Examiner'', December 29, 2000. Accessed April 24, 2008.)
Currey, Virginia. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3341/is_199906/ai_n8062865 "Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman? Why Women Still Aren't Making It to the Top in Politics."], ''Perspectives on Political Science'', June 1999. Accessed April 24, 2008.
Donohue, Joe. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=10A9CD41003339DC&p_docnum=20&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=H55C5CJTMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Voters unseat two assemblymen: Handlin beats GOP veteran Azzolina as Epps ousts Democrat Chiappone in primaries"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', June 8, 2005. Accessed August 1, 2007. "Republicans in the 13th Legislative District, which includes parts of Monmouth and Middlesex counties, ousted Assemblyman Joseph Azzolina. The primary ends the long career of the 79-year-old Azzolina, who first won election in 1966 and has served 24 years in several stints in the lower house. The supermarket owner and Navy veteran lost to Monmouth County Freeholder Amy Handlin after county Republicans dropped him from the ticket earlier this year."
link. (August 28, 2007 , ''[[Home News Tribune]]''. August 18, 2007. Accessed August 18, 2007. "Assemblywoman Amy Handlin, R-Monmouth, who brought the issue to the public's attention earlier this year, said a zero-tolerance policy is the only way to go.")
(December 9, 2016). "Amy Handlin running for Joe Kyrillos' D13 Senate seat".
(March 2, 2017). "BREAKING: Amy Handlin Dropping Bid to Replace Kyrillos in NJ State Senate".
[http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=58172 Assembly Member Amy H. Handlin], [[Project Vote Smart]]. Accessed August 10, 2007.
"2017-official-general-election-results-general-assembly.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.
"2015-official-ge-results-nj-general-assembly.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.
"2013-official-general-election-results-general-assembly.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.
"2011-official-gen-elect-gen-assembly-results-121411.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.
"2009-official-gen-elect-gen-assembly-tallies-120109.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.
"2007-official-general-election-tallies(ga)-12.12.07.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.
"05831236.pdf". New Jersey Secretary of State.

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