Leanna Brown

[2] In 1980, Brown won a special election to an unexpired term in the New Jersey General Assembly.

In 1983, she challenged her former running-mate, James P. Vreeland, for the Republican nomination for state senate in the 26th district.

Brown ultimately decided against running in the Republican primary, which was won by Jim Courter.

[5] In 1993, Brown resigned from the state senate when she was appointed to the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, initially, to serve out the unexpired term of Charles J. Irwin.

[6] The following year she was named by Governor Christine Todd Whitman to a full five-year term on the commission, serving until 1999.