Britnee Timberlake | |
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Member of the New Jersey Senate from the 34th district | |
Assumed office January 9, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Nia Gill |
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 34th district | |
In office January 29, 2018 – January 9, 2024 Serving with Thomas P. Giblin | |
Preceded by | Sheila Oliver |
Succeeded by | |
Personal details | |
Born | May 14, 1986 |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Seton Hall University (BA, MPA) |
Website | Legislative webpage |
Britnee N. Timberlake (born May 14, 1986) is an American Democratic Party elected official, community advocate, nonprofit executive, and humanitarian. She has represented the 34th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate since January 2024, when she became New Jersey's youngest state senator. Before she took office in the senate, Timberlake had represented the 34th District in the New Jersey General Assembly from January 29, 2018, when she was sworn in to replace Sheila Oliver, who took office as Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey. Timberlake had served as Freeholder President of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, where she was at the time the state's only African-American woman to serve as a freeholder board leader.[1]