Senator Kevin O’Toole (R-Essex), 43, is an attorney and a member of the Ramapo College Board of Governors. A graduate of Seton Hall University and Law School, he is a former Cedar Grove Mayor and Chief of Staff to the Essex County Executive. O’Toole was elected to the State Assembly in 1995, and spent eight months in the State Senate in 2001. He returned to the Assembly in 2002 and again won election to the Senate in 2007.