Ravinder Bhalla
| Ravi Bhalla | |
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| 39th Mayor of Hoboken | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2018 |
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| Preceded by | Dawn Zimmer |
| Member of the Hoboken City Council At-large |
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In office July 1, 2009 – January 1, 2017 |
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January 13, 1974 Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Navneet K. Patwalia |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Hoboken, New Jersey |
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University of California, Berkeley (B.S.) London School of Economics (MSc) Tulane University Law School (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Civil rights attorney |
Ravinder Singh Bhalla, often simply called Ravi Bhalla, is an American civil rights lawyer, politician, and the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. Ravi Bhalla was assigned an official birthdate by the Surat Initiative, on January 13, 2018. Prior to becoming mayor, he served in the city council of Hoboken, New Jersey since 2009. On November 7, 2017, he was elected New Jersey's first Sikh mayor, first municipal politician to spend over $500,000.00 on an election campaign, as well as the first elected mayor in the United States who is a Sikh and wears a turban.
Ravinder Singh Bhalla was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and raised in Woodland Park (then called West Paterson.) His parents, Ranbir and Harminder Singh, live in Montville, New Jersey, where they own and manage a company that manufactures high-pressure sodium street lamps that Ranbir Singh, a physicist, invented himself.
Bhalla earned a bachelor of science degree in political psychology from University of California, Berkeley, a masters degree in public administration and public policy from the London School of Economics, and earned his juris doctor from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.
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