Donald Linky
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Po Box 7942 Princeton NJ 08543
856-759-9451 [email protected]
NewJerseyAlmanac.com PoliticsArchive.com
@njalmanac @politicsarchive
Experienced print and web author, lawyer and communicator, former chief counsel to governor of New Jersey, visiting professor at Rutgers University and adjunct lecturer at Princeton University
<>-·NewJerseyAlmanac.com
Reference content on government, politics, business, history etc.
PoliticsArchive.com
US political history essays, news on archives, collectibles
Author, New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne: The Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought
Biography published 2014 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Co-editor and contributor, The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays
Biographical essays of all governors since colonial times published 2014 by
Rutgers University Press
Editorial Board member and essay author, Encyclopedia of New Jersey
Most extensive reference book ever developed on the state published 2004 by Rutgers
University Press, edited and contributed content
Publisher and author, The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders
Reference book and profiles of top leaders, companies, hospitals, colleges, associations-
published six editions through 2001
Employment
--President, Joshua Communications 1983-
· Founder of publishing and information consulting firm, currently developer and publisher of Web sites; previously published six editions of The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders; research clients included the Star-Ledger; The Record; and Asbury Park Press
--Community Affairs Liaison, Thomas Edison State College 2011-2013
· Represented college in community development projects impacting its facilities in Trenton, serving as liaison with state and local officials, developers, nonprofits and others
--Visiting Professor and Senior Policy Fellow
Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University 2001-2011
<>·Rutgers Eagleton Center on the American Governor, founding director of only academic center in nation focusing on office of governor in the 50 states, designer and author of Web site and content
<>······Key roles in development of Byrne Administration environmental and economic development programs, including the Spill Compensation and Protection Act, Community Development Bond Act, the Urban Enterprise Zone program, the Pinelands Protection Act, Meadowlands development; and the creation of New Jersey Transit --Associate and Assistant Counsel to Governor Brendan T. Byrne 1975-1977
-- Attorney, Hannoch Weisman, Stern & Besser 1973-1975
--Law Secretary to Justice Haydn Proctor, Supreme Court of New Jersey 1972-1973
--Legal Intern, New Jersey Public Defender, Appellate Section 1969
Education
Appointments and Boards (past and present)
· Transition Task Force, Governor-elect James J. Florio
· Counsel, State House Commission
Interviews
Publications
· Author, New Jersey History Daybook (NewJerseyAlmanac 2024)
· Author, New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne: The Man who Couldn’t be Bought (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Rowman & Littlefield October 2014)
· Co-editor and essay author, The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays (Rutgers University Press, January 2014)
· The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders; editor and author, six editions through 2001 (Princeton: Joshua Communications)
· “Digital Democracy: Are We There Yet?” New Jersey Reporter (co-author with Victoria Chen; September 2000)
· “Welcome to New Jersey, Pardon While We Clean Up,” New Jersey Reporter (September 2000)
· “Agenda for a Lame-Duck,” New Jersey Reporter, August 2000
· “New Jersey at the Millennium: Where Do We Go from Here?” New Jersey Reporter (January 2000)
· The New Jersey Almanac 1999, editor (Princeton: Public Affairs Research Institute of New Jersey)
· The New Jersey Municipal Almanac 2000, 2002, 2003, editor (Princeton: Center for the Analysis of Public Issues and New Jersey State League of Municipalities)
· “The Governor,” chapter in The Political State of New Jersey, Gerald Pomper, ed. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1986)
· “A Mosaic of Small Worlds: Immigration and its Impact on the Most Ethnically Diverse State of the Union,” Big Magazine, May-June 2002
· Contributing editor and columnist, “The Public's Business,” New Jersey Reporter 2000-2001
· Monthly columnist, New Jersey Business Magazine 1983-1988
· Monthly columnist, Business Journal of New Jersey 1989-1990
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Po Box 7942 Princeton NJ 08543
856-759-9451 [email protected]
NewJerseyAlmanac.com PoliticsArchive.com
@njalmanac @politicsarchive
Experienced print and web author, lawyer and communicator, former chief counsel to governor of New Jersey, visiting professor at Rutgers University and adjunct lecturer at Princeton University
<>-·NewJerseyAlmanac.com
Reference content on government, politics, business, history etc.
PoliticsArchive.com
US political history essays, news on archives, collectibles
- Author, editor and publisher
Author, New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne: The Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought
Biography published 2014 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Co-editor and contributor, The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays
Biographical essays of all governors since colonial times published 2014 by
Rutgers University Press
Editorial Board member and essay author, Encyclopedia of New Jersey
Most extensive reference book ever developed on the state published 2004 by Rutgers
University Press, edited and contributed content
Publisher and author, The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders
Reference book and profiles of top leaders, companies, hospitals, colleges, associations-
published six editions through 2001
Employment
--President, Joshua Communications 1983-
· Founder of publishing and information consulting firm, currently developer and publisher of Web sites; previously published six editions of The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders; research clients included the Star-Ledger; The Record; and Asbury Park Press
--Community Affairs Liaison, Thomas Edison State College 2011-2013
· Represented college in community development projects impacting its facilities in Trenton, serving as liaison with state and local officials, developers, nonprofits and others
--Visiting Professor and Senior Policy Fellow
Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University 2001-2011
<>·Rutgers Eagleton Center on the American Governor, founding director of only academic center in nation focusing on office of governor in the 50 states, designer and author of Web site and content
<>······Key roles in development of Byrne Administration environmental and economic development programs, including the Spill Compensation and Protection Act, Community Development Bond Act, the Urban Enterprise Zone program, the Pinelands Protection Act, Meadowlands development; and the creation of New Jersey Transit --Associate and Assistant Counsel to Governor Brendan T. Byrne 1975-1977
- Member of Governor's legal staff and principal policy and legislative liaison to departments on such subjects as budgeting, environment, capital investment, economic development, emergencies, agriculture and others
-- Attorney, Hannoch Weisman, Stern & Besser 1973-1975
- Attorney in litigation group of major law firm, representing clients in corporate and commercial matters relating to securities, real estate, mergers and acquisitions
--Law Secretary to Justice Haydn Proctor, Supreme Court of New Jersey 1972-1973
- Assisted in drafting, research for Supreme Court's opinions on commercial, land-use, contract, labor and other issues
--Legal Intern, New Jersey Public Defender, Appellate Section 1969
- Assisted in drafting, research, interviewing for indigent criminal appeals, including drafting legal brief in State v. Ward, 57 NJ 77 (NJ Supreme Court 1970) first judicial decision in nation directing that first-time marijuana possession offenders normally should be sentenced to probation rather than incarceration
Education
- J.D. Harvard Law School 1972
- B.A. Dartmouth College 1968
- London School of Economics and Political Science 1966-67 (General Course in Political Philosophy)
Appointments and Boards (past and present)
- Co-director, Rutgers Program on Ethics
- Commissioner, New Jersey Capital Budgeting & Planning Commission
- Editorial Board and contributor, New Jersey Encyclopedia
- Board of Directors, New Jersey Future
· Transition Task Force, Governor-elect James J. Florio
· Counsel, State House Commission
- Consultant, National Science Foundation
- New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Taxation
- Staff Director, Committee on Foreign Trade & International Relations, National Governors Association
- Board of Directors, Council of State Planning Agencies
Interviews
Publications
· Author, New Jersey History Daybook (NewJerseyAlmanac 2024)
· Author, New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne: The Man who Couldn’t be Bought (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Rowman & Littlefield October 2014)
· Co-editor and essay author, The Governors of New Jersey: Biographical Essays (Rutgers University Press, January 2014)
· The New Jersey Directory: The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders; editor and author, six editions through 2001 (Princeton: Joshua Communications)
· “Digital Democracy: Are We There Yet?” New Jersey Reporter (co-author with Victoria Chen; September 2000)
· “Welcome to New Jersey, Pardon While We Clean Up,” New Jersey Reporter (September 2000)
· “Agenda for a Lame-Duck,” New Jersey Reporter, August 2000
· “New Jersey at the Millennium: Where Do We Go from Here?” New Jersey Reporter (January 2000)
· The New Jersey Almanac 1999, editor (Princeton: Public Affairs Research Institute of New Jersey)
· The New Jersey Municipal Almanac 2000, 2002, 2003, editor (Princeton: Center for the Analysis of Public Issues and New Jersey State League of Municipalities)
· “The Governor,” chapter in The Political State of New Jersey, Gerald Pomper, ed. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1986)
· “A Mosaic of Small Worlds: Immigration and its Impact on the Most Ethnically Diverse State of the Union,” Big Magazine, May-June 2002
· Contributing editor and columnist, “The Public's Business,” New Jersey Reporter 2000-2001
· Monthly columnist, New Jersey Business Magazine 1983-1988
· Monthly columnist, Business Journal of New Jersey 1989-1990