CAREN S. FRANZINI
​PUBLIC PARTNER AWARD

ASSEMBLYWOMAN ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

ASSEMBLYWOMAN
​ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

Eliana Pintor Marin was born in Newark to Portuguese immigrant parents and grew up in the city’s historic East Ward. She began her professional career working for Banco Votorantim Securities in New York City before joining the Essex County Clerk’s Office, and is now Assistant County Administrator for Essex.    

​Pintor Marin joined the Assembly representing the 29th Legislative District in 2013, and was re-elected to her third term in November of 2017. She has held numerous leadership positions, currently Chairing the Assembly Budget Committee, and serving on the Appropriations and Joint Budget Oversight committees. As the Budget Chair, Assemblywoman Pintor Marin plays a critical role in the discussions between the Legislature and the Governor involving the New Jersey State Budget which ranges around $40+ billion. 

Assemblywoman Pintor Marin is well known by the commercial real estate community as a champion of economic development. A driving force behind efforts to bring redevelopment to urban centers like Newark, she co-sponsored a law that allows municipal redevelopers to receive tax credits under Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant program for certain mixed use parking projects. She sponsored the critically important reinstatement and extension of the Urban Enterprise Zone program, and worked closely with various real estate investors and developers on a recent law establishing further grant funding for redevelopment and growth projects. Most recently, Pintor Marin was the prime sponsor of the Economic Recovery Act of 2020.

Education is also a life-long priority for Assemblywoman Pintor Marin. From 2008 to 2014, she served on the Newark Public Schools Advisory Board, including a term as Chair.  In the Assembly, she sponsored laws that ensure all teachers in New Jersey are familiar with the needs of students with disabilities, that require the teaching of financial literacy, and that expand eligibility for summer meal programs for hungry children.  She is extremely dedicated to her community.  She has volunteered as a district leader, helped in different capacities at the various Portuguese cultural clubs, and was the Director of the Luis Camoes Portuguese School. However, the role that she is the proudest to serve is that of a Mother. She and husband Anthony have two beautiful daughters; Amelia Maria and Aveline Mia.  

​She attended the Academy of St. Benedict’s for grammar school and graduated from Mother Seton Regional High School.  She went on to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from St. John’s University in New York. She received certificates in Public Administration and International Relations.

                                          
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