Doris Meyer Mahalick (October 23, 1924 – October 17, 2008) was an American Democratic Party official who served on the

Bergen County, New Jersey Bergen County is the List of counties in New Jersey, most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Board of Chosen Freeholders In New Jersey, a Board of County Commissioners (until 2020 named the Board of Chosen Freeholders) is the elected county-wide government board in each of the state's 21 counties. In the five counties that have an elected county executive, the ...

. She served as the mayor of

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and as the first woman to serve as the Bergen County Police Commissioner when she was appointed in 1965. She was elected Freeholder in 1975, and was re-elected in 1978, 1981 and 1984. She lost a bid for the

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in 1967. In 1986, she sought the Democratic nomination for

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after voters changed the form of government; party leaders instead picked State Senator Matthew Feldman as their candidate. She declined to seek re-election as Freeholder, and in the general election she endorsed Feldman's Republican opponent, William D. McDowell. After McDowell won, Mahalick joined his administration. She retired to

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and

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, and died in 2008 at age 83 after battles with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

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