Gerald R. Stockman (born March 31, 1935) is an American attorney and politician who served 10 years in the New Jersey Senate, from 1982 to 1992, where he represented the 15th Legislative District.
[1] After Helen Chiarello Szabo stepped down from her Assembly seat representing the 13th Legislative District to become the superintendent of elections in Mercer County, Stockman defeated Republican Mario D. Rossetti in a November 1978 special election for the balance of the term of office.
[2] Stockman was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1981 to a two-year term of office, succeeding Wayne Dumont, who had been moved out of the 15th district in redistricting following the 1980 United States census.
[3] Democrats had the goal of regaining some of the seats lost in the 1991 Republican landslide and Stockman challenged LaRossa for a second time in 1993, with the incumbent receiving endorsements from the AFL–CIO, locals of the Communications Workers of America and the New Jersey State Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
[3] Stockman supported legislation enabling fair housing in New Jersey under the Mount Laurel doctrine, stating in 1984 that there are "two unequal societies in the state – urban and suburban", earning for him recognition by The New York Times as "one of the Legislature's strongest open-housing advocates".