4 Members Of Gloucester County Commission For Women Sworn In

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NJ — With the 100th anniversary of the women's suffrage movement on the horizon, four members have been sworn in to new terms with the Gloucester County Commission for Women, county officials announced.

Marguerite Stubbs, Gail Slimm, Lisa Cerny, and Beverly Wellons took the oath to continue serving the Commission for Women, a fact-finding and advisory group who work to suggest and urge identified reforms regarding treatment of women. They were sworn in by Freeholder Jim Jefferson on Jan. 21.

“Thanks to the continued work of individuals like these four women and the Commission for Women as a whole that our county is able to promote reforms in regards to the treatment of women,” Gloucester County Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger said.

“The work done by this commission will always carry a lot of weight, and we have so much respect for the members who work tirelessly to help support other women,” Jefferson, who serves as liaison to the commission, said. “This is an appropriate time in our world to highlight the inequity women have faced in every facet of our culture, and change it for the better.”

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, which concluded with the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote on Aug. 18, 1920.