Raj Mukherji, Esq.

Raj Mukherji, Esq.

Raj Mukherji is an attorney and serial entrepreneur. With industry experience in healthcare, technology, and real estate, he has achieved hundreds of millions in aggregated enterprise value across companies he founded and led as CEO or co-owner, while creating hundreds of jobs along the way. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Legal Officer of mid-sized companies and negotiated and closed multiple M&A transactions with publicly traded buyers.

Mr. Mukherji presently represents the 32nd Legislative District (Hudson County) in the New Jersey Senate, where he serves as Chair of the Senate Military and Veterans’ Affairs Committee; Vice Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee; and a member of the Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee.

At 24, Mr. Mukherji was appointed Commissioner and Chairman of the Jersey City Housing Authority, the state’s second largest public housing authority, where he earned acclaim for his oversight and various reforms and served for over 15 years. At 27, he was appointed Deputy Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2013, he won a six-way primary election to the State Assembly at the age of 28 and went on to serve five terms, including in leadership as Majority Whip and Deputy Speaker of the General Assembly. In the State Assembly, he served as Chair of the Judiciary Committee and Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee. Senator Mukherji’s bills and appropriations priorities have focused on economic development and job creation; infrastructure and mass transit; expanding access to healthcare and mandating insurance coverage of certain healthcare services and prescription benefits; sustainability and environmental protection; reproductive autonomy; college affordability; veterans’ welfare; public safety; social justice, civil liberties, and human rights; addiction prevention and treatment; animal welfare; and myriad other issues of importance to his constituents.

For his stewardship on natural resource protection and climate change, Senator Mukherji was a 2021 and 2024 Sierra Club Award recipient, 2023 Emerald Award recipient from the League of Conservation Voters, and recipient of the annual Legislative Leadership Award from NY/NJ Baykeeper in 2018 and 2022 (making him the only two-time awardee in the organization’s history). In 2022, he was named “Legislator of the Year” by the State Troopers Fraternal Association (STFA), after having been named 2015 Legislator of the Year by the NJ Law Enforcement Police Officers Brotherhood. He was named the “Humane Legislator of the Year” recipient for 2014 by the Humane Society. He was the 2017 recipient of the Mortar & Pestle Award from the NJ Pharmacists Association, awarded annually to a non-pharmacist with the greatest contributions to the profession of pharmacy and the public. He was named the 2022 Legislator of the Year by the NJ Psychological Association for successful efforts to expand and destigmatize access to mental health services. Mr. Mukherji was also named a 2015 honoree of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hudson County for championing the expansion of teens’ access to mental health services, and he received the 2015 Legislator Award from the NAACP for his civil rights advocacy. He received the 2015 Compadre Award from Latina Civic PAC.

Prior to his Bar admission, Mr. Mukherji was the Managing Partner of a government affairs and regulatory consulting firm, where his clients included numerous financial institutions, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 corporations such as diagnostics and clinical lab giant LabCorp and retail pharmacy and pharmaceutical wholesaler Walgreens, hospitals and other healthcare institutions, government agencies, social justice causes, labor unions, higher education institutions, Atlantic City’s top grossing casino, and others. Previously, Mr. Mukherji had founded an Internet consulting and software development company while in middle school and later sold it to a larger technology company in order to enlist in the Marines two weeks after 9/11 at age 17, where he served in military intelligence and was honorably discharged as a Sergeant.

Mr. Mukherji is a Rodel Fellow of the Rodel Institute (formerly of the Aspen Institute), a member of NewDEAL Leaders, and as a recipient of the Professor James B. Boskey Award, he completed the Harvard Negotiation Institute’s Intensive Negotiations for Lawyers and Executives program at Harvard Law School. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he also serves on the Board of Visitors, and previously taught Constitutional Law as an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University. He also served for several years as a municipal prosecutor.

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Practice Areas

  • International Law and Regulatory Compliance

  • Healthcare Law

  • Criminal Defense and Internal Investigations

  • Corporate Counseling

Education

  • Master of Public Policy, Princeton University

  • Master of Liberal Arts, University of Pennsylvania

  • Juris Doctor, cum laude, Seton Hall University School of Law

  • Bachelor of Arts, Thomas Edison State University

Attorney Admissions

  • State of New Jersey

  • U.S. Tax Court

  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

  • U.S. District Court, Western District of New York

  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

  • Supreme Court of the United States

Public Service

  • Senator, New Jersey Legislature (2024-present)

  • Assemblyman, New Jersey Legislature (2014-2024)

  • Deputy Mayor of Jersey City (2012-2013)

  • Commissioner & Chairman, Jersey City Housing Authority (2008-2024)

  • Member, Governor’s Council on Volunteerism and Community Service (2004-2014)

  • Superior Court of New Jersey – Juvenile Conference Committee (2004-2011)

Affiliations

  • Chair-elect, National Asian Pacific American Caucus of State Legislators (NAPACSL)

  • Board of Visitors, Seton Hall University School of Law

  • Adjunct Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law (2023-present)

  • Adjunct Professor of Political Science, New Jersey City University (2013-2016)

  • Member, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild)

  • Member, New Jersey State Bar Association

  • Lifetime Member, Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey

  • Lifetime Member, Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey

  • Lifetime Member, Hispanic National Bar Association

  • Lifetime Member, South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey

  • Member, Association of Former Intelligence Officers

  • Life Member, Civil Affairs Association