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Maurice Fitzgibbons
District 5
As a Freeholder, Maurice Fitzgibbons has served in various
leadership capacities on the Board, including 1997 chairperson.
Freeholder Fitzgibbons is a lifelong resident of the City of Hoboken
and a graduate of Hoboken High School. He has attended Jersey City
State College, participated in an internship at the Roundabout
Theater in New York City, and has studied acting with acting coach
Julie Bovasso.
Presently, Mr. Fitzgibbons is President of the public relations firm
Fitz Media of Jersey City. He had been Director of Ethnic Affairs,
Department of State, and then Special Assistant to Governor James
Florio and was formerly the administrator of the Hudson County
Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs. During his term as
freeholder chairperson in 1997, Maurice Fitzgibbons instigated the
preliminary development of the Hudson County High School for the
Performing Arts, which has the potential for being housed in the A.J.
Demarest School in Hoboken (Frank Sinatra’s old high school) and in
educating its students by using a conservatory approach.
Freeholder Fitzgibbons now serves as Chairman of the Tourism and
Cultural Affairs Committee, as the Representative of the Board on
the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC), as an Alternate on
the Workforce Investment Board where he served as President
2001-2002, and as a Member of the Hudson County Schools of
Technology Board of School Estimate. He is Chairman of the Task
Force on Homeless Committee and also serves as a Member on the
following committees: Environment, Health and Human Services; and
Finance, Budget and Administration.
Maurice Fitzgibbons is known throughout the County as a caring
individual, one who has given his time and effort to many charitable
causes. He is a member of St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church in
Hoboken. Freeholder Fitzgibbons was named Lions Club Man of the Year
in 1992, the Hoboken B.P.O. Elks, Lodge #74, 1999 Irishman of the
Year, and the Hoboken St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal in
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