Maria Rodriguez-Gregg (born September 29, 1981) is a former American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2014 to 2018 representing the 8th Legislative District.
[1] The Burlington County Republicans suggested to Rodriguez-Gregg that she should run for the Assembly in the 2013 elections to succeed Scott Rudder, who was retiring.
[5] Rodriguez-Gregg and Brown both won in the general election in November,[6] and she became the first Republican Hispanic woman to serve in the New Jersey Legislature.
[10][11] Four months after her arrest, Rodriguez-Gregg withdrew from her campaign seeking re-election in the upcoming November 2017 New Jersey election.
[19][20] In a Facebook post and several media interviews, Rodriguez-Gregg shared details of her alleged abuse and photographs of her face with multiple bruises and urged support for pending legislation that strengthened penalties for domestic violence.
[24][25] In 2022, Governor Phil Murphy appointed Rodriguez-Gregg as a Republican member of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities,[26] but the nomination was withdrawn after a hold was placed on it in the State Senate.