Amy Handlin

Who is Amy Handlin?

Amy Handlin is an American Republican Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represents the 13th Legislative District, having taken office on January 10, 2006.

Handlin filled the seat of fellow Republican Joseph Azzolina whom she defeated in the June 2005 GOP primary.

In the Assembly, Handlin serves on the Education Committee and the Judiciary Committee.

Handlin was elected to the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1989 and re-elected in 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2004. Previously, she served as Deputy Mayor and Township Committeewoman in Middletown Township.

Handlin is a former Commissioner on the New Jersey State Commission on Higher Education and Chair of Monmouth County's Communities Against Tobacco Coalition. Named 2003 Elected Official of the Year by the Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce, she has also been honored by the American Cancer Society of New Jersey, Prevention First, 180:Turning Lives Around and many other public health organizations for her work to reduce teen smoking. Handlin has also served on the boards of the New Jersey League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women, among others. She is a past recipient of the Legislative Award of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the Humanitarian Award of Brandeis University Women, the Rose and Scroll Award of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners, and numerous other citations for civic leadership. Handlin, the author of the 1998 book Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman? Why Women Still Aren't Making It to the Top in Politics, has also been a columnist for the New Jersey Reporter, a public-affairs magazine.