Maurice Fitzgibbons

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Maurice Fitzgibbons represents ([1]) District 5 on the Hudson County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders, one of nine members who serve in a legislative role administering all county business. District 5 includes the City of Hoboken and portions of the City of Jersey City. Fitzgibbons' three-year term of office expires on December 31, 2008.

Now in the first year of his fourth term as freeholder, Fitzgibbons has served in various leadership capacities on the Board, including serving as Board Chairperson in 1997.

He participated in an internship at the Roundabout Theater in New York City. He attended Jersey City State College and studied acting with the late actress/acting coach Julie Bovasso.

Fitzgibbons is President of a local public relations firm. He had been Director of Ethnic Affairs, Department of State, and then Special Assistant to the Governor for Governor of New Jersey James Florio and was formerly the administrator of the Hudson County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.

During his term as freeholder chairperson in 1997, Maurice Fitzgibbons instigated the preliminary development of the Hudson County High School for the Performing Arts, which may be housed in the A.J. Demarest School in Hoboken (Frank Sinatra’s old high school), to educate its students using a conservatory approach.

In 2003, Freeholder Fitzgibbons was appointed as Chairman of the Tourism and Cultural Affairs Committee, as the Representative of the Board on the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC), as an Alternate on the Workforce Investment Board, and as a Member of the Hudson County Board of School Estimate.

He also serves as a Member on the following committees: Environment, Health and Human Services; Finance, Budget and Administration; and Task Force on Homeless.

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Government of Hudson County, New Jersey
(County Seat: Jersey City)
County Executive Thomas A. DeGise
Freeholders District 1: Doreen McAndrew DiDomenico | District 2: William O'Dea | District 3: Jeffrey Dublin | District 4: Eliu Rivera | District 5: Maurice Fitzgibbons | District 6: Tilo Rivas | District 7: Gerald Lange Jr. | District 8: Thomas Liggio (Vice Chairman) | District 9: Albert Cifelli