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2 candidates are tracked for Passaic County Surrogate on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Zoila Cassanova and Jessica Sprague. Candidate information follows official Passaic County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
A five-year term. Democratic incumbent Zoila Cassanova, first elected in 2021, is seeking a second term unopposed within her own party and faces Republican Jessica Sprague, a family law attorney, in the general election, per New Jersey Globe reporting.
Zoila Cassanova is a former attorney with the New York Supreme Court's Criminal Division in Queens and the Bronx, per New Jersey Globe. She was first elected Passaic County Surrogate in 2021 and is seeking a second five-year term. As Surrogate, she has hosted a free guardianship-application clinic and an annual disability-inclusion event for county families, per an official county news release. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 8, 2026; the official roster and election filing is the only verifiable source for Zoila Cassanova.
Jessica Sprague is a shareholder at Jardim Meisner Salmon Sprague & Susser specializing in family and matrimonial law, and is certified as a Matrimonial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court, per her law firm's attorney profile. She served as the 100th President of the Passaic County Bar Association and currently serves as general counsel for the Passaic County Regular Republican Organization. She holds a B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 8, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Jessica Sprague.
