Principal Planner

Judy joins the Highlands Council staff as Principal Planner. She will be working extensively with Highlands communities to assist in local efforts to align municipal and county planning programs with the Highlands Regional Master Plan.

A licensed New Jersey Professional Planner, Judy has worked in planning and zoning at the municipal level for over 17 years. Among other areas, her experience includes work on municipal master plans, zoning ordinances, historic preservation, open space and recreation planning, affordable housing, and redevelopment area planning and regulation. Her previous employment was with the Town of Westfield in Union County, where she worked as full-time Town Planner. Prior to that appointment, she served as full-time Township Planner for Cedar Grove in Essex County. At the same time, she has maintained her own private consulting practice, taking a variety of work and appearing before land use boards in a host of other New Jersey municipalities.

Judy has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Duke University, an M.S. in Environmental Policy Studies from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

She has served on Califon Borough's combined Planning/Zoning Board since 1990 and as Chairwoman of its Affordable Housing Committee since its inception, in 1997.