Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq.
President, Ponder Solutions, Inc.
Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq, has an extensive background in politics, government, media relations and public policy.
A former mayor of Princeton Township (New Jersey), she has served as assistant counsel to Governor Jim Florio, assistant director of the New Jersey Division on Women and New Jersey |
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Division on Civil Rights, director of development and public affairs at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and congressional aide to former US Representative Louis Stokes and Senator Frank Lautenberg. She also was a community builder fellow with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Camden and an instructor at Princeton and Rutgers Universities. Until 2007, she was the CEO/Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of Delaware-Raritan, Inc.
Tuck-Ponder currently owns and operates Ponder Solutions, Inc., a public affairs consulting firm, and has served a wide variety of clients including PSE&G, The Hyacinth Foundation and the YWCA of Eastern Union County.
A committed volunteer, Tuck-Ponder is Vice Chair of the boards of directors of New Jersey After 3 and the Center for Non Profit Corporations, and a member of the board of the Association for Children of New Jersey. She is a Leadership New Jersey Fellow (Class of 1995), a member of the Rotary Club of Princeton, a member of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee, co-chair of the Princeton United Methodist Church Council and Leader of Princeton Brownie Troop #726.
Along with her husband, she has co-authored two books published by Random House. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Tuck-Ponder is married to Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Esq. and is the mother of Jamaica Sharon, age 9 and William D’Artagnan who is one year old.
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