Levin also was Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA), serving in the cabinets of Governors Jim McGreevey, Dick Codey, and Jon Corzine beginning in 2002.
[2] From 1988 to 2002, Bass Levin was Mayor of the Township of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
[3] A Democrat, she unsuccessfully challenged longtime U.S. Representative H. James Saxton in the 2000 election in which she garnered 42% of the popular vote in New Jersey's 3rd congressional district.
Saxton retired his seat in 2009, and Bass Levin's friend, neighbor, and former Cherry Hill Councilman/State Senator John Adler was elected to the House post.
[4] In June 2007, Corzine also named Bass Levin to a five-year term on the New Jersey Local Finance Board.