Gormley Region

Assemblyman Joseph Roberts (D-Camden), 55, is the Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly.  He is a graduate of Rutgers University and received a master’s degree from the Fels School of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.  He served as a Bellmawr school board member and Councilman, and as a Camden County Freeholder, before winning a State Assembly seat in a 1987 special election following the death of Francis Gorman.  Roberts served as Democratic State Chairman and Assembly Majority Leader before becoming Speaker in 2006.