League President
Robert L. Bowser (Mayor, East Orange City)

Robert Bowser is the 12th Mayor of the City of East Orange.  He previously served as the League’s 2nd and 3rd vice president.  Before his election to public office, Mayor Bowser was President for 26 years of Bowser Engineers and Associates, Inc., an East Orange based engineering, planning, surveying, and architectural design firm.

Following his experience as head of a successful small business, Mayor Bowser served as the Director of Public Works for East Orange, as well as the Acting City Planner.  Mayor Bowser has also served as the Principal Planner for the City of Newark and Traffic Engineer for the Township of Montclair.

He is on the Board of Directors of the National Conference of Black Mayors, Inc., and is 1st vice president and Finance Committee chairperson.  Mayor Bowser is a member of the Executive Board of the New Jersey League of Municipalities and chairperson of the League’s Gang and Youth Violence Task Force.

League 1^st Vice President
Timothy C. McDonough (Mayor, Hope Township)

Mayor McDonough has worked in both the private and public sector for over thirty years.  One of the longest serving mayors in New Jersey, McDonough is in his 16th year as Mayor of Hope Township.  As a registered Independent, Mayor McDonough has held several key management positions, including most recently, Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, Garden State Parkway Division.  In this role, he oversaw the successful integration of the high-speed E-Z Pass system into the State’s major toll roads.

One of New Jersey’s leaders in the area of Homeland Security, Mayor McDonough also serves as chairperson of the State League of Municipalities Hometown Security Task Force.  He is a current or former board member of multiple organizations throughout New Jersey, including the New Jersey Association of Environmental Authorities, Warren Pollution Control Finance Authority, New Jersey Business and Industry Association, D.A.R.E.  New Jersey, Fannie Mae, New Jersey citizen Corps State Council, the New Jersey Society of Environmental Economic Development, and the Policy Research Organization.

League 2^nd Vice President
James Anzaldi (Mayor, Clifton City)

Jim Anzaldi has lived in Clifton all his life.  He attended Clifton public schools and received his degree in Political Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.  He has been involved in numerous civic, charitable, and religious causes.  First elected as a member of the Clifton Municipal Council in 1978, he was the youngest Councilman ever elected in City Government.

In 1990, he began his first term as Mayor of Clifton.  In 1994, he was re-elected with the highest percentage of votes in City history.  In 1998, he was re-elected becoming the first 3-term mayor in City history, and, subsequently, he was re-elected in 2002 and 2006, and is currently serving his fifth term as Mayor of the City.  He is one of the two trustees of St. Paul R.C. Church in Clifton, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boys & Girls Club of Clifton for over 30 years, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of St Mary’s Hospital in Passaic.

League 3^rd Vice President
Louise Currey Wilson (Committeewoman, Montgomery Township)

Louise Wilson presently serves as Township Committeewoman. In 2007 she served as Deputy Mayor and  previously served as Montgomery Twonship Mayor from 2002 to December 2006. Committeewoman Wilson has been a member of the Township Committee since 2001.  Her primary areas of interest are good government, tax reform, and land use, natural resources and transportation.  Committeewoman Wilson’s involvement in public service and volunteerism span over 13 years.

Committeewoman Wilson serves as a League member of the Heavy Truck Task Force, and is chairwoman of the League’s Legislative sub-Committee on general legislation.  In addition, she is a member of the League’s steering committee on Women in Municipal Government.  She is also president of the League's newly formed Educational Foundation

Executive Director
William G. Dressel, Jr.

Bill Dressel, is Executive Director and formerly Chief Lobbyist for the New Jersey State League of Municipalities.  He has held progressive staff positions with the League since 1974 and assumed the duties of Executive Director on July 1, 1995.

Bill manages the broad spectrum of programs and services for the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, which represents all of the State’s 566 municipalities and a membership of over 13,000 elected and appointed municipal officials.  The League headquarters are located at 407 West State Street in Trenton.  The League has an operating budget of nearly 3 million dollars and has a staff of 20.  The League publishes a monthly magazine, New Jersey Municipalities, conducts seminars and educational workshops on a wide range of subjects, publishes numerous survey documents, almanacs, and directories.  The League also has an Annual Conference each November in Atlantic City and attracts nearly 20,000 registrants.  The League Conference is the largest of its kind in the world.  Bill Dressel also supervises four full-time lobbyists who are highly regarded as being the “municipal voice” on both Federal and State Legislative matters.

In 1999, he received the John G. Stutz Award for 25 years of State League Service by the National League of Cities.  He served from 1999 – 2001 on the Executive Board of the National League of Cities.  On November 14, 2007 he received the Rutgers Award for public service to New Jersey for Excellence in promoting and supporting Municipal Government.  On September 27, 2008, he was presented with the Sarah P. Fiske Award by Preservation New Jersey, Inc. for efforts in preserving the Ferdinand W. Roebling Sr. Mansion in Trenton.   Bill serves as a member of numerous governmental and association boards such as the Board of Directors of the Community Development Institute: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers; serves as a trustee of Downtown New Jersey Inc.; is on the Board of Directors of the Health Care Quality Institute, serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the “Friends of the State House” organization, and is a member of both the Family Readiness Council for the New Jersey National Guard; and the Employer Support of the Guard and National Reserve. 

He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Social Science from Elon College in North Carolina.  He also holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from West Virginia University.  Some of his leisure activities include jogging and working on various community projects.