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==== Women in elected office ==== [[File:Tree near lake in Nomahegan Park in NJ.jpg|thumb|Tree in [[Rahway River Parkway|Nomahegan Park]] across from [[Union College (New Jersey)|Union College]]]] [[File:River with reflections of trees autumn in Cranford New Jersey.JPG|thumb|[[Rahway River Parkway|Nomahegan Park]]]] Through 2022, a total of 12 women have been elected to the Cranford Township Committee, and four women have served as Mayor of Cranford. Barbara Brande was the first woman elected to the Township Committee and the first woman mayor of the township. Mayor Brande was elected to the Township Committee in 1974 and reelected in 1977, serving a total of six years. She was Mayor of Cranford in 1977. Carolyn Vollero, who served the longest length of time for a woman on the Township Committee—nine years—was Cranford's second female Mayor in 1994. Barbara Bilger, the township's third female mayor in 2002 and 2004, was also the first woman to serve two terms as the township's mayor. Mayor Bilger is the first Republican woman to serve as a township commissioner and as mayor. Union County Freeholder Bette Jane Kowalski is a Cranford resident and the first woman from Cranford to be elected to the [[Board of Chosen Freeholders|Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders]]. Freeholder Kowalski was an unsuccessful candidate for Cranford Township Committee in 1999 and served as Union County Freeholder Chairwoman in 2007 and 2019. Female township commissioners include: *Barbara Brande ([[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]) – 1975 to 1980 (Mayor in 1977) *Sandy Weeks (Democrat) – 1982 to 1984 *Mary Lou Farmer (Democrat) – 1984 to 1986 *Carolyn Vollero (Democrat) – 1988 to 1996 (Mayor in 1994, Deputy Mayor in 1993) *Barbara Bilger ([[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]) – 1990 to 1992, 2002 to 2004 and Sept. 2015 to Nov. 2015 (Mayor in 2002 & 2004, Deputy Mayor in 1992 & 2003) *Ann Darby (Republican) – 2003 to 2005 (Deputy Mayor in 2004) *Martha Garcia (Republican) – 2008 to 2010 (Deputy Mayor in 2010) *Lisa Adubato (Republican) – 2012 to Aug. 2015 (Deputy Mayor in 2014 and 2015 (part)) *Mary O'Connor (Republican) – 2014 to present (Deputy Mayor in 2015 (part) and 2016) *Ann Dooley (Democrat) – 2016 to 2019 (Deputy Mayor in 2018 and 2019) *Kathleen Miller Prunty (Democrat) – 2020 to present (Deputy Mayor 2020, Mayor 2021–2022) *Gina Black (Republican) – 2022 to present
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