---
type: Person
title: "Bob Smith"
description: "NJ Senate District 17 — NJ State Senate District 17"
role: "NJ Senate District 17"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NJ"
district: "NJ State Senate District 17"
represents: "us/states/nj/districts/senate/17"
tenure:
  start: "2002-01-08"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "51b1c84e-9389-4df2-99b4-f7ede865d637"
  office: "24af94d7-fdcb-4245-b0b6-c604de9a12e1"
  tenure: "1dcfdad5-87b2-49bc-9271-e2d83485e860"
  jurisdiction: "f23f2890-f1bb-450d-87ea-5a616d5df77b"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, nj]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Bob Smith

Current NJ Senate District 17 (NJ State Senate District 17).

Represents [NJ State Senate District 17](/us/states/nj/districts/senate/17.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).