Alma Rutgers has served in Greenwich town government for the past 25 years, including service on the Board of Health, the Housing Authority, and as an elected member of the Board and Estimate and Taxation for 12 years. She has served on numerous Selectmen’s advisory committees and currently chairs the town’s Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.
Rutgers has also served on the Boards of many Greenwich non-profit organizations, including Neighbor-to-Neighbor, Call A Ride, Greenwich League of Women Voters, Greenwich Hadassah, Greenwich Kiwanis Club, and Jewish Family Services.
She was an affordable housing specialist for the Connecticut League of Women Voters, lobbying at the State Capitol for 10 years on housing issues.
Long active in politics, Rutgers chaired the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee for 4 years.
She is a hospice volunteer and also volunteers once a month at New Covenant House of Hospitality soup kitchen in Stamford.
A resident of Greenwich since 1946, Rutgers is a graduate of Greenwich Academy and Barnard College. She also holds an M. Phil. Degree from Columbia University in sociology and recently (May 2009) received an M.A. Degree in writing from Manhattanville College.
Rutgers is currently working on a memoir about her Jewish spiritual journey.
