Ryan E. Peters (born c. 1982)[2] is an American Republican Party politician and lawyer who represented the 8th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2018 to 2022.

[4] Peters played soccer with the varsity team and graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor of science degree in political science; he earned a juris doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law–Camden in 2012, where he was president of the Student Bar Association and edited the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion.

[5] In the November 2017 general election, Peters (with 28,671 votes; 25.0% of all ballots cast) and his running mate, incumbent Joe Howarth (with 28,841; 25.1%), defeated Democratic challengers Joanne Schwartz (28,321; 24.7%) and Maryann Merlino (28,196; 24.6%) to win both Assembly seats from the district for the Republicans.

[7] With Joanne Schwartz, the closest Democratic candidate 350 votes behind Peters for the second seat from the district, the Democratic Party had considered filing for a recount; Peters stepped down from the Board of Chosen Freeholders, leaving Republicans to fill the seat with a candidate who could run in the November 2018 general election with fellow incumbent Kate Gibbs, with control of the board in the balance.

[8] In January 2018, former freeholder Linda Hughes was selected to fill the seat vacated by Peters when he took office in the Assembly.