Hon. Sheena C. Collum

Sheena Collum was elected in May 2015 as the 49th president of the Township of South Orange Village, a municipality of 16,000 residents, and was the first woman to hold this role. She is also currently the youngest female municipal executive in the state of New Jersey. She has concentrated her priorities around growth and economic development, shared services, citizen engagement and streamlining municipal operations and customer service through the expansion of technology. Ms. Collum also serves as the executive director of the American Planning Association’s New Jersey chapter, a statewide planning organization whose mission is to help build stronger communities and provide more choices for how people work and live while meeting the challenges of both growth and change.