Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein

Linda Greenstein has been serving in the General Assembly since January 2000. She was educated at Vassar, Johns Hopkins University, and the Georgetown University Law Center and is a specialist in disability law. Prior to her current position, she was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Community Health Law Project and has served as a Deputy Attorney General in Trenton and as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia.

As a full-time Legislator, Greenstein was appointed Deputy Speaker of the General Assembly in 2006, following a four-year period serving as Assistant Majority Leader. She also Chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee and is a member of the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee and the Assembly Housing and Local Government Committee. The author of New Jersey’s tough anti-telemarketing law, she sponsored legislation expanding Megan’s Law, and calling for a State Constitutional Convention for property tax reform.

Greenstein has served as an elected member of the Plainsboro Township Committee and as vice president of the Mercer County School Boards Association. She is currently a board member of the Central New Jersey Council, Boy Scouts of America.