LittleSis: David Samson

David Samson was nominated to the Board of Commissioners by Governor Chris Christie. He was confirmed by the New Jersey State Senate on January 25, 2011 and was elected as the agency’s Chairman on February 3, 2011. Mr. Samson is a Partner and founding member of the law firm Wolff & Samson. During 2002-2003, Mr. Samson served as New Jersey Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer for New Jersey. In this role, he supervised the statewide Divisions of Criminal Justice, New Jersey State Police, Civil Rights, Consumer Affairs and Gaming Enforcement, as well as the Division of Law, which represents all executive departments in New Jersey State government. As Chairman of the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, he worked hand-in-hand with federal agencies in organizing and directing counter-terrorism efforts throughout the New Jersey-New York area. In 2009, Mr. Samson was counsel to the gubernatorial election campaign of Christopher J. Christie and thereafter served as the Chairman of the Transition Committee for Governor Christie. Mr. Samson has also acted as a court-appointed labor union trustee, a civil litigation discovery master and as a federal monitor pursuant to a United States Department of Justice deferred prosecution agreement. Among his public positions, Mr. Samson was appointed by Governor James Florio as a member of the Governor’s Commission on Health Care Costs and by Governor Thomas Kean as the Chairman of the Governor’s Task Force on the Laws Governing the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also served from 1982-1990 as General Counsel to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Mr. Samson was appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to serve on its Ethics Committee and was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Reporting of Court Decisions. He was also the legal consultant to the Advisory Committee to the Attorney General on Governmental Immunity. In addition, Mr. Samson served on the New Jersey Bar Association Committee on Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments.

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Peter Miller Dawkins	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Charles Rangel, Chuck Schumer, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, William L Gormley, Garabed Haytaian
Barbara Sobel	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Robert Guy Torricelli, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, William L Gormley, Garabed Haytaian
Paul Singer	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, William Emerson Brock III, Garabed Haytaian
Cheryl F Halpern	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III, Garabed Haytaian
Lewis M Eisenberg	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, William L Gormley, George H W Bush, Garabed Haytaian
Henry Kravis	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, William L Gormley, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III, Garabed Haytaian
Stephen Schwarzman	John McCain, Charles Rangel, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, Garabed Haytaian, New York Salute 1992
John A Moran	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, William L Gormley, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III, Garabed Haytaian
James D Robinson III	John McCain, Charles Rangel, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III
David S Mack	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Robert Guy Torricelli, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, John H Adler
Woody Johnson	John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III, New York Salute 1992
Robert Fagenson	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Frank Pallone, Chuck Schumer, Robert Guy Torricelli, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Garabed Haytaian
John C Whitehead	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III
John S Chalsty	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, Garabed Haytaian
David M Flaum	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, Garabed Haytaian
Charles A Heimbold	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Robert Guy Torricelli, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush
George Klein	John McCain, Charles Rangel, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush, William Emerson Brock III
Kenneth J Bialkin	John McCain, Charles Rangel, Chuck Schumer, Robert Guy Torricelli, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, Thomas H Kean Jr, George H W Bush
Leonard A Lauder	John McCain, Charles Rangel, Chuck Schumer, Robert Guy Torricelli, Robert Douglas Franks, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, George H W Bush
Finn M W Caspersen	Christine Todd Whitman, John McCain, Bill Pascrell, Charles Rangel, Robert Douglas Franks, Bob Dole, Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, New Jersey Republican State Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, William L Gormley

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Peter Miller Dawkins