degree from Rutgers University in 1987, and after graduation was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army.

He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge for his service in the ground offensive in Iraq.

In 1991–1992, Brown interned with L. Anthony Gibson, Presiding Judge of the Chancery Division of the New Jersey Superior Court for Atlantic and Cape May Counties.

Brown and his running mate John F. Amodeo defeated the Democratic candidates, Alisa Cooper and Damon Tyner.

[10] In one of the most expensive of the 120 legislative races in the 2017 election, in which $4.6 million was spent, Brown defeated Bell by a 54%-46% margin, taking a Senate seat that had been held by Democrats since 2008 and giving the Republicans their only Senate seat that changed parties, in an election that had many major victories for the Democratic Party across the state.