Franklin Lakes November 14, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 9 According to the unofficial tally for two uncontested seats on the Franklin Lakes Borough Council, Charles J.X. Kahwaty received 3,078 votes and Thomas G. Lambrix received 3,058 votes and the borough’s voters mirrored the vote statewide in approving the two questions on the ballot. Kahwaty has now won first full three-year term on the council. He has been a member of the governing body since he was chosen by the council in February 2011 to fill the vacancy created when Frank Bivona was sworn in as mayor. Kahwaty was then elected in November 2011 to fill Bivona’s term, which will expire at the end of 2012. Kahwaty is an attorney who was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1980. He has also been admitted to the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court, Tax Court, Council incumbents gain voters’ endorsements U.S. Supreme Court, District of Columbia, and the New York Bar. His practice areas include personal injury law, commercial litigation, municipal court law, driving while intoxicated cases, and collections. He received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a JD degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. He is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association and was its president from 2002 to 2003. Lambrix has won his first full three-year term on the council. He was appointed to the council on May 1 to replace William Smith, who resigned from the council because he was being appointed to the position of borough attorney. Lambrix has lived in the borough for 20 years. He was appointed chairman of the borough’s environmental commission in 2007, and served in that capacity until he became a councilman. He holds a degree in chemistry from Rutgers University and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently an adjunct professor of management and communications in the Anisfield School of Business at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he has taught graduate business administration courses and is teaching several undergraduate business courses. He has been active in the community, coaching in the recreation program, and was a member of the committee that analyzed the controversial split of the borough’s students between the two schools in the regional high school district that existed in the mid-1990s. He has served as executive vice president of the Hawthorn Group, senior vice president of communications and public affairs for Union Camp Corporation, and manager of external communications for Phillips Petroleum Company. Before joining Phillips, Lambrix received a presidential appointment to the White House domestic policy staff as assistant director for energy and natural resources. He was the founding chairman of the Global Climate Coalition, and currently serves on the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy of New Jersey.