Carol Cronheim is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at Rutgers University's Bloustein School in New Brunswick. Her most recent government position was Deputy Chief in the New Jersey Governor's Office of Policy and Planning. During the Whitman Administration, she also served as a speechwriter, as the senior advisor for cultural affairs, and as Acting Secretary of State from July 1998 to January 1999. Governor Whitman nominated Ms. Cronheim to serve on the first board of the New Jersey Cultural Trust. She was confirmed for a five-year term by the full Senate on October 23, 2000 and is currently serving as Vice Chair. Governor Whitman also appointed Ms. Cronheim to the State Capitol Joint Management Commission, which is responsible for the management and security of the historic Capitol Complex. Ms. Cronheim served as chair of the Commission during her last two years of official government service. In addition to the Cultural Trust, Ms. Cronheim serves on the boards of ArtPride, NJ, (the statewide arts advocacy organization), Citizens for the Public Good (a government reform group), Friends of the State House, the Christine Todd Whitman Excellence in Public Service Series, and The Princeton Charter Club, of which she is the chair. She also serves on the Regional Plan Association's New Jersey Committee. She wrote an entry in the Encyclopedia New Jersey and a book review published in the Fall 2004 volume of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. She is a Republican County Committeewoman in Hunterdon and the 1999 Recipient of the Maureen Ogden Award for New Jersey History. She previously was the Legislative Director to New Jersey Assemblyman Leonard Lance (R-23), who is now in the New Jersey State Senate. She served in Washington, DC on the staffs of the National Endowment for the Arts and the President's Commission on the Federal Appointment Process. During Governor Thomas H. Kean's administration, she worked for the New Jersey Department of State and the Governor's Office of Constituent Relations. A resident of Lambertville, Ms. Cronheim has a degree in classics from Princeton University and a master's in politics from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, where she was a Visiting Associate for the '99-'00 academic year. She is married and has two sons.