Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick is serving his third term in the New Jersey General Assembly representing District 21, which includes 16 towns in Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union counties.

He was selected to fill the seat of Thomas H. Kean Jr., who resigned in 2003 to become a state senator. Bramnick was sworn into the Assembly on Feb. 24, 2003 and was elected to his first full, two-year term in November 2005. Bramnick was elected Republican Whip two years ago and currently serves as the ranking Republican on the Assembly Consumer Affairs and Public Safety committees. He is also chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.

The assemblyman served on the Plainfield City Council from 1984 to 1991 and has been chairman of the Westfield Town Republican Committee since 2001.

A partner in law firm of Bramnick, Rodriguez, Mitterhoff, Grabas & Woodruff, based in Scotch Plains, Bramnick was admitted to the New York Bar in 1978 and the New Jersey Bar in 1984. He is a certified civil trial attorney and frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the American Association for Justice. In 2001, he served as president of the Richard J. Hughes Inn of Court, an association of professional attorneys dedicated to teaching young attorneys. Bramnick also served as a guest commentator for Court TV in 1998.

Bramnick was an adjunct professor teaching business law in a graduate program at Rutgers University from 1989 to 1990. He was also an assistant professor of business law at Rider University from 1984 to 1989.
Long active in community service, Bramnick has served on the boards of the Westfield College Men’s Club, the United Fund of Westfield, the Muhlenberg Hospital Foundation and the Wardlaw Hartridge School in Edison.

Bramnick won the title Funniest Lawyer in New Jersey for three consecutive years in the 1990s, after winning contests sponsored by the New Jersey and Essex County bar associations at Rascals Comedy Club. He often volunteers his services as a comedic auctioneer on behalf non-profit organizations, including the American Red Cross, the Diabetes Foundation of New Jersey, the AIDS Benefits Committee, the Boy Scouts of America and the New Jersey State Symphony.

Bramnick graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with honors in political science from the Maxwell School of Political Science at Syracuse University in 1975. He received his law degree in 1978 from the Hofstra University School of Law.

Bramnick resides in Westfield with his wife, Patricia Brentano. They have two grown children, Brent, who is a Union County assistant prosecutor, and Abigail, who is completing her studies in the arts.