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Nina Mitchell Wells is a former Secretary of State of New Jersey. She served in the cabinet of Governor Jon Corzine. Prior to assuming her cabinet post in January 2006, Wells served as a vice president at Schering-Plough and as an assistant dean at Rutgers School of Law—Newark. Wells received her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.
As Secretary of State, Wells served a set term of four years, concurrent to the term of the governor. Her term expired on January 19, 2010. As Secretary, she is the state's chief elections officer, oversees tourism, historical affairs, cultural and arts programs, Native American affairs, literacy, volunteerism, the state archives and the state museum.
She and her husband, criminal defense lawyer Ted Wells, reside in Livingston, New Jersey.
In 2008, Wells was named as a defendant in the case Donofrio v. Wells, an attempt to force her to stay the presidential election in New Jersey pending investigations into the citizenship of Barack Obama. The case was ultimately unsuccessful.
