---
type: Person
title: "Nilsa Cruz-Perez"
description: "NJ Senate District 5 — NJ State Senate District 5"
role: "NJ Senate District 5"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NJ"
district: "NJ State Senate District 5"
represents: "us/states/nj/districts/senate/5"
tenure:
  start: "2014-12-15"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "b0a3144b-8159-47f0-aaff-261981d5cfda"
  office: "7f9ead90-8ce2-4b5e-9878-c7160208441b"
  tenure: "5931f8be-e7c7-49cb-a727-5c13df5b2443"
  jurisdiction: "3ff8bcb4-b9aa-47fd-adbb-771e3eeb18dd"
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"
---

# Nilsa Cruz-Perez

Current NJ Senate District 5 (NJ State Senate District 5).

Represents [NJ State Senate District 5](/us/states/nj/districts/senate/5.md).

## Sources

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

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