List of mayors of Moorestown, New Jersey

Moorestown Township, New Jersey was incorporated on March 11, 1922. The municipal government operates within the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under Council-Manager plan E, which was implemented as of January 1, 1967, based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission.^[3] A five-member Council is elected at-large on a partisan basis, with each member serving a four-year term of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats coming up for election in even years.^[4] At a reorganization meeting held in January after each election, the council selects a mayor and a deputy mayor from among its members.

Mayor of Moorestown
Incumbent Quinton Law since January 9, 2025[1]
Type	Mayor
Constituting instrument	Code of the Township of Moorestown § 6
Deputy	Deputy Mayor of Moorestown
Salary	$2,405–3,500[2]
Website	Town Council

Mayors

Mayor	birth and death	In office	Left office	Notes
Quinton Law	(born c. 1997)	January 9, 2025		Law is first black mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey.[1]
Nicole Gillespie		January 7, 2020	January 9, 2025	[5]
Lisa Petriello	(born May 6, 1979)	2019	2020	[6]
Stacey Jordan	(born September 29, 1970)	2018	2019	Jordan served a previous term during 2013 and is the first and only Mayor to serve multiple terms as Mayor non-consecutively.
Manny Delgado	(born January 23, 1970)	2017	2018	Manny Delgado was the first Hispanic mayor, deputy mayor, and councilmember of Moorestown, New Jersey.[7]
Phil Garwood	(born February 22, 1959)	2016	2017
Victoria Napolitano	(born August 16, 1988)	2015	2016	Victoria Napolitano was the youngest mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey and youngest woman to become Mayor in New Jersey state history at the age of 26.[8] She was also the first sitting councilmember to give birth while in office.[9]
Chris Chiacchio	(born March 8, 1967)	2014	2015	[10]
Stacey Jordan	(born September 29, 1970)	2013	2014	Stacey Jordan was the first female mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey.[11] She later served a second term during 2018 and is the first and only Mayor to serve multiple terms non-consecutively.
John Button	(born November 14, 1942)	2011	2012	[12]
Daniel Roccato	(born July 20, 1961)	2009	2010	[13]
Kevin E. Aberant	(born November 7, 1969)	2005	2008	He was the first Democratic mayor of Moorestown, New Jersey.
Michael L. Sanyour	(1931-2017)	2003	2004	[14]
Howard Miller	(born August 2, 1937)	1997	2002
Walter T. Maahs,	(1927-2011)	1988	1996	[15]
Francis L. Bodine	(born January 10, 1936)	1981	1987
James Euel Palmer	(1932-2000)	1976	1980	[16]
William A. Angus, Jr.	(1923-2006)	1971	1976	[17]
John L. Call		1969	1970
Charles Walton		1967	1968
Albert Ellis		1962	1966
Edwin Bell Forsythe	(1916-1984)	1957	1962	[18]
William J. Hall, Jr.		1954	1956
Allen Nixon		1943	1953
Fred P. Smith		1938	1942
Benjamin Haines		1935	1937
John C. Dudley		1932	1934
Frederick W. Grube	(1871-1961)	1929	1931	[19]