Dave Rible

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American politician

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Field	Value
name	David P. Rible
office	Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control
term_start	July 17, 2017
preceded	Jonathan Orsen (acting)
office2	Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 30th District
term_start2	January 10, 2012
term_end2	July 17, 2017
preceded2	Ronald S. Dancer
Joseph R. Malone
alongside2	Sean T. Kean
succeeded2	Ned Thomson
office3	Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 11th District
term_start3	January 8, 2008
term_end3	January 10, 2012
preceded3	Steve Corodemus
Sean T. Kean
succeeded3	Caroline Casagrande
alongside3	Mary Pat Angelini
birth_date
birth_place	Belmar, New Jersey
nationality	American
spouse	Jacqueline Rible
party	Republican Party
children	one
residence	Wall Township, New Jersey
alma_mater	Brookdale Community College
Seton Hall University
website	Legislative website
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David P. Rible (born August 28, 1967) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control since July 2017. He had previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 30th Legislative District from January 10, 2012 until July 17, 2017, when he was appointed as Director of the ABC. Prior to redistricting, he represented the 11th Legislative District in the Assembly from January 8, 2008 to 2012.

Biography

Rible was born and raised in Belmar. He attended Asbury Park High School, Brookdale Community College majoring in criminal justice, and Seton Hall University, also majoring in criminal justice. After his college career, he attended the New Jersey State Police Academy and the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Academy. He is a certified forensic locksmith, one of only twenty-nine in the world. Rible is a resident of Wall Township, New Jersey where he lives with his wife Jacqueline and one daughter.

Rible is a member of the Belmar Fire Department, the Belmar First Aid Squad, and the Wall Township Police Department (as a patrolman, hostage negotiator, crime prevention officer and forensic specialist). Rible served on the Wall Township Planning Board from 2000 to 2007. He remains the chairman of the Wall Township Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's fundraising committee after serving as the organization's treasurer and president.

Legislative career

Rible was first elected to the General Assembly from the 11th District in 2007 alongside Mary Pat Angelini. The two were re-elected in 2009. Following the 2011 legislative redistricting, Rible's hometown of Wall Township was moved to the 30th District. He and one of his predecessors in the Assembly Sean T. Kean, were elected to the 30th in 2011 and 2013.

In the Assembly, Rible served as an Assistant Republican Whip (2008-2009), Deputy Conference Leader in 2009, the Republican Whip (2010-2011), and was elected Republican Conference Leader in January 2012. He served in the Assembly on the Education Committee and the Law and Public Safety Committee.

Resignation

On June 15, 2017, Rible was nominated by Governor Chris Christie to be Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The nomination was confirmed by the State Senate on July 4, and Rible resigned his Assembly seat to take the position on July 17. Rible was succeeded in the Assembly by Ned Thomson, a former mayor of Wall Township.

References

"Republican Conference Leader David Rible". New Jersey Assembly Republicans.
[http://www.nj.gov/oag/abc/director.html Director's Biography], [[New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control]]. Accessed January 25, 2018.
(November 2018)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170625140737/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/BIO.asp?Leg=275 Assemblyman Rible's legislative webpage], [[New Jersey Legislature]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of June 25, 2017. Accessed January 25, 2018.
(June 15, 2017). "Rible nominated to lead NJ liquor licensing agency".
(July 8, 2017). "Rible Exits Assembly with Bipartisan Sendoff, Amid State Budget Standoff".
(July 17, 2017}}{{Dead link). "Rible sworn in as head of Alcoholic Beverage Control".
Johnson, Brent. [http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/08/nj_assembly_soon_to_welcome_new_member.html "Here's the new face in the N.J. Assembly"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], August 19, 2017. Accessed January 25, 2018. "A former mayor of Wall Township will soon be sworn in as the newest member of the New Jersey Assembly. Edward 'Ned' Thomson, a Republican, is scheduled to take the oath of office Thursday to begin representing the Jersey Shore's 30th legislative district in the Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Thomson will replace David Rible, who stepped down from the Assembly last month after Gov. Chris Christie appointed him director of the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control. "

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