Mims Hackett Jr. (born September 28, 1941) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2007, where he represented the 27th Legislative District, which covers the western portion of Essex County.
[1] He spent thirty-two years as a science teacher in the Union City Board of Education.
[6] In resigning before September 17, 2007, the Democratic Party was able to put an alternate on the November ballot in lieu of Hackett.
[8] Hackett was convicted on a charge of falsifying expense receipts and was sentenced to a five-year prison term beginning in January 2009.
In December of that year, he was accepted into a state early-release program and was allowed to return home.