Voorhees Township resident Mary Lamielle, founder and executive director of the National Center for Environmental Health Strategies, is a 2011 recipient of a New Jersey Governor’s Jefferson Award. In ceremonies on June 8 in Newark she was awarded the PSEG (Public Service Enterprise Group) Environmental Stewardship New Jersey Governor’s Jefferson Award for Public Service. She was one of 19 New Jersey awardees honored at the ceremonies. Awardees were selected from more than 1,000 nominations. Lamielle was one of four New Jersey recipients invited to the National Jefferson Awards in Washington, D.C., June 20–22 where she was among those honored at a black tie gala during which Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of several recipients of a National Jefferson Award. Lamielle was a 2010 recipient of a US EPA Region 2 Environmental Quality Award.
Lamielle was nominated for a Jefferson Award by Claudia Miller, M.D., Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Diane Reibel, Ph.D., Director of the Mindfulness Institute and Professor at Jefferson Medical School, and Jane Nogaki, former Vice Chair of the New Jersey Environmental Federation.
