NJ-GOV: Sherrill selects Dale Caldwell, a college president, as Lt. Governor candidate

Mikie Sherrill has picked Dale G. Caldwell, the president of a small university in Warren County, a Methodist pastor, and former school board member in New Brunswick with a long history of government service, as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.

Sherrill made her decision after the list of candidates was narrowed to Caldwell, the president of Centenary University, and two others: former Assistant Attorney General Shavar Jeffries and Samuel Delgado, the vice chairman of the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission.

The 65-year-old Caldwell became the president of Centenary in 2023. The Hackettstown-based college, which has about 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students, has called an emergency meeting of its board of trustees for tomorrow.

In 2006, he became the president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association – the first Black person to hold that post – and is a founder of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame. Caldwell is also the pastor of the Covenant United Methodist Church in Plainfield. He is a third-generation clergyman.



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