Roger Bodman

Roger A. Bodman (born 1952) is an American Republican Party politician and political strategist who served in the cabinet of New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean.

Bodman grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, near where his father worked for AT&T as an engineer. He graduated in 1970 from Bernardsville High School.

He is a 1974 graduate of Ohio University. Bodman began his political career as a driver for U.S. Rep. Millicent Fenwick in her first campaign for Congress in 1974. He later ran Fenwick's District Office. In 1978, Bodman managed the successful campaign of Jim Courter for Congress against two-term Democratic Rep. Helen Meyner, the wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner. Bodman later became Courter's Chief of Staff. In 1981, Bodman was the campaign manager for Thomas Kean in his winning campaign for Governor of New Jersey. Bodman served in Kean's cabinet, first as the Commissioner of Labor from 1982 to 1985, and then as Commissioner of Transportation from 1985 to 1986. He resigned from the cabinet in 1987 to start a lobbying firm.