Susan Lederman is Professor Emerita of Public Administration at Kean University. She had served as Director of Kean’s Master of Public Administration Program and has been on the faculty at the University since 1977.

Dr. Lederman is also a past president of the League of Women Voters of the United States and was president of the New Jersey League of Women Voters from 1985-1989. She has served on a number of New Jersey and national public policy commissions on issues such as taxes, judicial appointments, health care reform and as a commissioner of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. She was also president of Temple Sinai of Summit, NJ.

Dr. Lederman holds leadership positions in various civic organizations, notably, on the executive committee of New Jersey Future, had served on the Board of Directors of the Regional Plan Association and as a director on the Common Cause National Governing Association. She is coauthor of the book, Elections in America: Control and Influence in Democratic Politics.

Susan Lederman holds an A.B. degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. She was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, and immigrated with her parents to the United States in 1948. She is the widow of Peter B. Lederman, resides in New Providence, New Jersey, and has two grown children and three granddaughters.