Bernadette P. McPherson
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Bernadette P. McPherson is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who has served on the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders since 2002. She currently serves as Chairwoman of the Board and chairs the following Freeholder Committees: Cultural and Historical Affairs, Law and Public Safety and Personnel. Freeholder McPherson is a member of the Budget and Finance, Parks and Public Works and Planning and Economic Development Committees while also serving as Board member on the Board of Social Services, the New Jersey Association of Counties and as an alternate to County Executive Dennis McNerney on the North Jersey Transportation Authority.
In 1999, McPherson was elected Councilwoman in the Borough of Rutherford. She served as the first woman Fire Department Liaison. She has served as Mayor since January 2000. In 2001, Governor James McGreevey appointed her to his transition team.
McPherson was one of New Jersey's presidential electors casting the state's Electoral College votes after the 2004 presidential election. New Jersey's electors cast their ballots on December 13, 2004 in the State House Annex, in Trenton, where all 15 votes were cast for the Democratic Party candidate John Kerry.
As Vice-Chairperson to the Coalition for Public Health and Safety, a bipartisan group of thirteen South Bergen towns, she has helped to address health and quality of life issues in this region impacted by Teterboro Airport.
Freeholder McPherson graduated Magna Cum Laude from LaSalle University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and English in 1983. She attended both Seton Hall University School of Law and Temple University School of Law where she earned her J.D. in 1986.
Freeholder McPherson has lived in Rutherford since 1987 with her husband David, an attorney, and their four children.
