20 Facts About Jerramiah Healy

Jerramiah Healy ran for the unexpired term of the late Glenn D Cunningham and was elected in November 2004.

Jerramiah Healy was elected to a full term by a record landslide.

Jerramiah Healy was appointed Chief Judge in the Jersey City Municipal Court in 1991, and was reappointed in 1995.

Jerramiah Healy resumed his private law practice until 2004, when he was elected mayor.

Jerramiah Healy lost to Councilman Steven Fulop for mayor in 2013.

Jerramiah Healy was the fourth of five children born to Daniel and Catherine Healy, Irish immigrants who met and married in Jersey City.

Jerramiah Healy's father died when Healy was five years old.

Jerramiah Healy was raised in North Bergen and Union City, New Jersey.

Jerramiah Healy attended St Michael's Grammar School in Union City and Xavier High School in New York City and is a 1972 graduate of Villanova University.

Jerramiah Healy then attended Seton Hall University School of Law and supported himself as a bartender and an ironworker.

Jerramiah Healy stood for re-election in May 2005, facing only token opposition from Melissa Holloway, a former city councilperson, and Alfred Marc Pine, who had received less than one percent of the votes in the special election.

Jerramiah Healy sought re-election in 2009, running as an agent of change and promoting his record of putting extra police on the street and reducing violent crime in Jersey City.

Jerramiah Healy lost his bid for another term as mayor on May 14,2013 to Councilman Steven Fulop.

Jerramiah Healy claimed to have been "roughed up", maced, and arrested outside his sister's bar in Bradley Beach in 2006.

Jerramiah Healy claimed that he was attempting to intervene in an argument between a couple outside the bar.

Jerramiah Healy's claims were rejected by the court and he was found guilty of obstruction of justice on June 22,2007.

Jerramiah Healy appealed the decision while trying to portray himself as having broad public support.

On July 2,2008, Jerramiah Healy's appeal was denied by the state appellate court which upheld Jerramiah Healy's conviction.

Jerramiah Healy filed suit against the officers in question, alleging that they violated his right to free speech.

Jerramiah Healy appealed to the State Supreme Court and was again denied.