William O'Dea

William O'Dea

William "Bill" O'Dea represents ( [http://www.hudsoncountynj.org/downloads/freeholders/HC%20Freeholder%20District%202.pdf] ) District 2 on the Hudson County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders, one of nine members who serve in a legislative role administering all county business. District 2 includes portions of the City of Jersey City. O'Dea's current three-year term of office expires on December 31 2008.

O’Dea was elected freeholder by one vote in a hotly contested election amongst county committee people to fill the unexpired term of Freeholder Henry “Hank” Gallo, who died unexpectedly in September 1997. In November 1998, Freeholder O’Dea defended his seat for the remaining one year of the term.

Now serving his third full term, Freeholder O’Dea is Chairman of the Public Resources Committee and Member on the following committees: Contract Review; Environment, Health and Human Services; Ethics; Public Safety and Department of Corrections; and Women and Minority Affairs.

On the 1999 Freeholder Board, Bill O’Dea was chairperson of the Economic Development Committee and the Y2K Task Force, and a member of four committees: Contract Review; Public Resources & Emergency Management; Tourism & Cultural Affairs; and Welfare, Welfare-to-Work. Freeholder O’Dea also served as liaison alternate to the Hudson County Improvement Authority and as alternate representative to the New Jersey Association of Counties.

O'Dea is a native of Jersey City and served two consecutive terms, in 1985 and 1989, as a Jersey City Councilman. Currently, O’Dea is Deputy Executive Director of the Elizabeth Development Company, an Enterprise Zone development company.

Freeholder O’Dea graduated "magna cum laude" with a B.S. degree from St. John’s University. He is the author of a screenplay.

External links

* [http://www.hudsoncountynj.org/freeholders/hudsoncountyfreeholders/Odea.htm Hudson County freeholder biography]
* [http://www.hudsoncountynj.org/downloads/freeholders/HC%20Freeholder%20District%202.pdf Map of Hudson County Freeholder District 2]


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