Scott D. Salmon

Scott Salmon is the Co-Managing Partner of Jardim Meisner Salmon Sprague & Susser, P.C., where he chairs the firm’s Election Group and co-chairs the Government Representation Group. In 2026, he was unanimously selected as Counsel to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, only the fourth person to hold that position in ELEC’s 53-year history. He has been named to the ROI-NJ Power List for Law three consecutive years (2024–2026), designated a Rising Star by New Jersey Super Lawyers® every year since 2020, and selected for the NJBiz Forty Under 40, Class of 2025.

Scott’s core practice area is municipal law. He serves as Township Attorney for Berkeley Heights, Manville, and Teaneck, and as Special Advisor to Jersey City, where he counsels the City on its most complex legal matters. He has provided additional counseling and litigation services to numerous other governmental entities, including Bradley Beach, Cranford, Dover, Englewood Cliffs, Fanwood, Garwood, Hillside, Lambertville, Millburn, Newark, Parsippany-Troy Hills, Paterson, Red Bank, Roselle Park, Springfield, and Trenton, among many others. His municipal work spans general representation, outside litigation, employment and labor law, election law, and land use and redevelopment.

Scott is an experienced trial lawyer with multiple jury verdicts and a practiced appellate attorney with half a dozen published decisions from the New Jersey Appellate Division and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court and filed public interest pro bono amicus curiae briefs across state and federal jurisdictions.

Prior to his service with ELEC, Scott advised and represented political campaigns at every level on ballot access, recounts and election contests, initiative and referendum petitions, recall matters, and campaign finance compliance for candidates, PACs, 501(c)(4) organizations, and other political entities. His clients included U.S. Representatives Tom Malinowski and Josh Gottheimer, former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop in his campaign for Governor, and current Jersey City Mayor James Solomon, for whom Scott also served as Transition Counsel. He has represented multiple municipalities and counties in the decennial redistricting and re-warding process.

As a proud New Jerseyan, Scott is the author of Naming New Jersey: The Etymology of Its Historical and Geographical Landmarks, a book tracing the origins of nearly 850 town, neighborhood, and landmark names across New Jersey’s 21 counties. The product of four years of original research, the book corrects widely accepted but erroneous origin stories and has been featured on The Jersey Angle podcast and in NJBiz. All proceeds from the book go toward the Bridge of Books Foundation, a nonprofit that donates books to children in underserved New Jersey communities.

Before Scott entered private practice, he clerked for the Honorable Eric N. Vitaliano, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and the Honorable Philip S. Straniere, New York City Civil Court. He also worked for the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office as well as for former U.S. Representative Michael E. McMahon (NY-13).

Scott has been quoted by the New York Times and the Washington Post, among numerous other media outlets, and has been profiled by the New Jersey Law Journal and New Jersey Super Lawyers. Scott previously served on the Board of Trustees for Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, New Jersey. He is an Eagle Scout (with one Bronze Palm, for those who keep track), has run three marathons (he did not win any of them), and remains a devout fan of the New York Jets (it is understandable if you hold that against him). Finally, but most importantly, Scott is a father to two adorable (and only occasionally exasperating) human children, as well as one perfect dog who has never done anything wrong in her life.