List of directors of the Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners

Prior to January 1, 2021, this position was known as the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

On August 21, 2020, "amid a national reckoning to reexamine vestiges of structural racism," Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill to change the name of county governing bodies.

Governor Sheila Oliver, an African-American woman who was once a Freeholder herself, said that the term "refers to a time when only white male landowners could hold public office."

[2][3] Gumbs entered public service by joining of the Matawan Board of Education.

[20][21] He was the first African American to serve the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders.