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Union County honors Leslie A. Anderson on her retirement from NJRA
Summary
The Union County Board presented a resolution recognizing Leslie A. Anderson for nearly 30 years as president and CEO of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority, highlighting the agency’s redevelopment work, a training institute she founded and her role in leveraging roughly $4 billion in investments.
The Union County Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday presented a resolution honoring Leslie A. Anderson on her retirement as president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority.
The board praised Anderson’s three decades of service and credited the NJRA under her leadership with leveraging nearly $4 billion in new investments to redevelop economically challenged neighborhoods. Vice Chair Williams read the resolution’s highlights and invited Anderson to accept the award.
The resolution noted Anderson founded the NJRA Redevelopment Training Institute in 2006, which the board said has trained more than 2,000 attorneys, elected officials, developers and community organizations and has earned continuing legal education and planning certifications. "Leslie's accomplishments are really just incredible," Vice Chair Williams said during the presentation.
In brief remarks accepting the resolution, Anderson said she is a lifelong resident of Plainfield and that leaving the NJRA will be a transition rather than an end to public work. "I am a true Jersey Girl," she said, and thanked the commissioners for the honor. She also confirmed her last official day at the NJRA will be March 31, 2026.
The board presented a copy of the prepared resolution and posed for photographs with Anderson and other staff in attendance. The presentation concluded with brief comments from several commissioners who praised Anderson’s mentoring role and decades of leadership in equitable redevelopment.
The agenda-setting portion of the meeting then moved on to departmental presentations and did not include a vote on the resolution; a suitably prepared copy was to be presented to Anderson, the clerk said.
