James J. Florio
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Governor James J. Florio is a founding partner of Florio Perrucci Steinhardt and Fader. In that capacity, he is the chair of the firm's Environmental Group as well as the Government and Regulatory Affairs Group.

Governor Florio has been a University Professor for Public Policy and Administration at the Edward J. Bloustein School at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York and as Chairman of The Pinelands Commission in New Jersey. Governor Florio currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute.

As the Governor of New Jersey from 1990 through 1994, he was responsible for signing into law the Clean Water Enforcement Act (1990), one of the strongest Environmental laws of its type in the nation. He also signed the Quality Education Act, which provided greater equity in New Jersey's school finance system, a landmark welfare reform package, a health care cost-reduction program and the nation's toughest assault weapons ban.

While in Congress from 1974 through 1990, representing the lst District of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, Governor Florio authored the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, known as the "Superfund" law, our nation's primary program for cleaning up hazardous waste sites. As Chairman of the House Subcommittee with jurisdiction over environmental matters, he was involved in the drafting or passage of virtually every major piece of federal environmental legislation. Governor Florio also wrote the legislation that privatized Conrail and served on the U. S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board.

Governor Florio entered public service in 1969, serving three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly. Previously, he was an attorney in private practice in Camden County. Governor Florio received his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University Law School in Camden. He graduated magna cum laude from Trenton State College and attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he received a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

Governor Florio holds numerous honorary degrees and was the 1993 recipient of the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

jflorio@florioperrucci.com

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