---
type: Person
title: "Shirley Turner"
description: "NJ Senate District 15 — NJ State Senate District 15"
role: "NJ Senate District 15"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NJ"
district: "NJ State Senate District 15"
represents: "us/states/nj/districts/senate/15"
tenure:
  start: "2025-01-01"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "a9dbc013-9daa-45df-b3d0-9dd33b4c7fc8"
  office: "2c3c7c4b-4b4f-49d0-8a62-ddff75b1133b"
  tenure: "b1a77f06-e194-4e86-b47e-d7b61ddae724"
  jurisdiction: "e124c22b-fa4c-4c63-9011-d4f522fdd341"
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"
---

# Shirley Turner

Current NJ Senate District 15 (NJ State Senate District 15).

Represents [NJ State Senate District 15](/us/states/nj/districts/senate/15.md).

## Sources

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

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