Elizabeth Graner, Commissioner

(Basking Ridge)
Term Expires: 12/31/26
Commissioners Office: 908-231-7030
Commissioners Fax: 908-231-8754
Email: CountyCommissioners@somersetcountynj.gov
Email: graner@somersetcountynj.gov
Commissioners Meeting Schedule

COMMISSIONER RESPONSIBILITIES: Community Development, Human Services/Operations and Planning, Office on Aging and Disability Services, Office of Youth Justice, One Stop Career Center, Richard Hall Community Health and Wellness Center, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County, Veterans Services, Volunteer Services, and Youth Services.

LIAISON: Somerset County Business Partnership (alternate), Commission on the Status of Women (alternate), Cultural & Heritage (alternate), Healthier Somerset (alternate), Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (alternate), Mental Health Board, Raritan Valley Community College, Raritan Valley Community College Board of School Estimate (alternate), Richard Hall Mental Health Center Community Advisory Council (alternate), Somerset County Governing Officials, Vocational and Technical Schools, Vocational Board of School Estimate, Workforce Development Board, and Youth Services Commission (alternate).

PUBLIC SERVICE: Somerset County Board of County Commissioners, 2025 – present; Public school teacher at Rahway Public Schools, 2001 – present.

AFFILIATIONS & COMMUNITY SERVICE: New Jersey Education Association, Rahway Education Association, Rahway River Watershed Association, Rahway Housing Authority, Rahway Library Board, Somerset County Commission on the Status of Women, Leadership Somerset Class of 2020.

BIOGRAPHY: Eldest of five children in a first-generation Irish-American home, two children. Professional: Educator at Rahway Public Schools; Member Somerset County Board of Taxation, 2022 – June 2025. Education: Master of Arts in Teaching in Curriculum and Teaching from Marygrove College, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a minor in Anthropology from Saint Mary’s College at Notre Dame.

AWARDS/RECOGNITION: 2024 Outstanding Volunteer Award at Somerset County Federation of Democratic Women Eleanor Roosevelt Award Dinner, 2021 Somerset County “Golden Sneaker” Award.