Assemblyman Angel Fuentes won election to the General Assembly in November, 2009. Before joining the Assembly he was a member of the Camden City Council beginning in 1994, and served as Council President from 2000 to 2010.
He was born August 1, 1961, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, Camden, in 1980. Assemblyman Fuentes earned a bachelors degree in philosophy at St. John Vianney College and Seminary, Miami, Fl., in 1985. He has worked in the patient relations department at Cooper Health Systems since 1996.
Assemblyman Fuentes has been a member of the Cooper’s Ferry Development Board since 2000; the Municipal Economic and Recovery Board since 2003; and the Greater Camden Partnership Board since 2004. He is co-founder of the Camden Neighborhood Renaissance, and served that organization from 1995 to 2005. Assemblyman Fuentes is the founder of the President’s Diversity Award, the Hispanic Youth Advisory Board, and he spearheaded the Camden Economic Summit and Youth Conferences. Assemblyman Fuentes is a member on the New Jersey Legislative Latino Caucus, and he also helped organize the state’s first Hispanic Leadership Summit in September, 2011.
Committees
• Women and Children, Vice-Chair
• Human Services
• Telecommunications and Utilities
