 Members of the Borough Council are Council President Philip D. Romero (D, 2020), Ezio I. Altamura (D, 2021), Dominick Azzolini (D, 2020), Catherine Cassidy (D, 2022), Joseph DiMarco (D, 2022) and Edward Marino (D, 2021).In September 2012, the Borough Council selected Phil Romero from a list of three candidates offered by the Democratic Municipal Committee to fill the vacant seat of Cosimo "Tom" Gonnella, who had resigned from office to accept a position with Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission after serving 16 years in office, which made him the longest-serving councilmember in borough history.Wood-Ridge is located in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 36th state legislative district.