Nina Mitchell Wells (born September 9, 1950) is an American attorney and politician who served as Secretary of State of New Jersey in the cabinet of Governor Jon Corzine.
Wells then received her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.
[2] Prior to assuming her cabinet post in January 2006, Wells served as a vice president at Schering-Plough and assistant dean at Rutgers Law School.
As Secretary, she was the state's chief elections officer and oversaw tourism, historical affairs, cultural and arts programs, Native American affairs, literacy, volunteerism, the state archives.
[4] She and her husband, criminal defense lawyer Ted Wells, reside in Livingston, New Jersey.