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Jersey City Remembers Glenn Cunningham

Mayor Glenn D.Cunningham

Glenn D.Cunningham served the people of Jersey City for over thirty years, starting as a beat cop and rising to the rank of captain with the Jersey City Police Department. While still a police officer, Mr. Cunningham served on the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1975 to 1978, and on the Jersey City Council from 1981 to 1989, which included a term as City Council President. After leaving the police ranks in 1991, Mr. Cunningham was tabbed as Director of Public Safety in Hudson County, where he had dominion over the county police, jail and youth house. President Bill Clinton nominated Mr. Cunningham for the position of United States Marshal for the District of New Jersey, a post he filled from 1996 until December 2000. In late December 2000, Mr. Cunningham resigned as Marshal and announced his plans to run for Mayor of Jersey City. Born, raised and educated in Jersey City, Mr. Cunningham enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1961. He served in the Third Tank Battalion, Third Marine Division, stationed at Okinawa, Japan, and at Schools Demonstration Troops, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia. While protecting the neighborhoods of Jersey City with the Jersey City Police Department, Mr. Cunningham pursued his studies at Jersey City State College, where he graduated Cum Laude in 1974. Believing education is a life-long mission; he continued to pursue a Master's Degree at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice. Mr. Cunningham began his law enforcement career in 1967 with the Jersey City Police Department. While with the JCPD he served in various capacities over 25 years, including patrolman, precinct and homicide detective, police-community relations sergeant, and instructor in the police academy. He retired at the rank of captain.After President Bill Clinton nominated Mr. Cunningham to be the United States Marshal for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination and Glenn became the first African-American U.S. Marshal in New Jersey's history. Serving as Marshal four years, Mr. Cunningham was responsible for the district's operations for judicial security, fugitive investigation and apprehension, witness protection, transportation and housing of federal prisoners, and the asset forfeiture program. For three years Mr. Cunningham was chairman of the Asset Forfeiture Leadership Council (AFLC), and led the U.S. Marshal’s Service reorganization of that nation-wide program. Mr. Cunningham served the people of Jersey City in many capacities during the past three decades. He taught young people at Jersey City State College in police science and criminal justice, served on the board of directors for the Jersey City Medical Center, and served on the boards of trustees of the Jersey City Branch of the NAACP and the Urban League of Hudson County. Mr. Cunningham also served as a commissioner with the Jersey City Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, as a member of the Jersey City Development Corporation (JCDC), and on the Jersey City Board of School Estimate. On July 1, 2001, his role of public service to Jersey City entered a new phase when he was sworn as the city's first African-American mayor. Mr. Cunningham enjoyed researching local and family history. This hobby led him to write and narrate the popular cable television documentary, Hidden Footprints. Cunningham lived in the Greenville ward in Jersey City with his wife Sandra Bolden-­Cunningham. Mayor Glenn Cunningham died of a massive heart attack on May 25th, 2004. In Lieu of Flowers Donations May Be Made In Honor of Glenn D. Cunningham To: The Sandra & Glenn Cunningham Foundation 20 Chapel Ave Jersey City, N.J. 07305 201-309-0100

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