website predecessor birth_place party office birth_date term_start residence article_title term_end name
http://rasjbaraka.com/team-baraka/name/gayle-cheneyfield-jenkins/ darrin sharif newark , new jersey democrat central < newark municipal council ward council member-elect newark municipal council council member-at-large 1957 july 1 , 2014 1995 newark , new jersey gayle chaneyfield-jenkins
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gayle chaneyfield-jenkins

gayle chaneyfield-jenkins -lrb- born 1957 -rrb- is an american politician in newark , new jersey .
on the municipal council of newark .
she had previously served from 1995 to 2006 , and ran on the slate of ras j. baraka , a candidate in the 2014 newark mayoral election , for the city 's central ward .
and faced incumbent darrin sharif in a run-off .
preliminary results released the night of the run-off election on june 10 , 2014 showed that chaneyfield-jenkins won the seat .
she was sworn in on july 1 , 2014 .
chaneyfeld-jenkins was born in newark and raised in the hayes homes projects by her parents who had immigrated from south carolina in the 1940s .
she is married to kevin jenkins , who has also acted as her chief of staff .
chaneyfield jenkins , along with late councilman donald tucker , were enstooled as ` nana ' in newark 's sister city kumasi in south ghana .
` nana ' is a term signifying royalty in the west african nation .
she was founder of women with hats for the cure , an unregistered cancer charity .
after leaving the municipal council she started jericho llc , a firm which sought to consult the city on development .
