Born and raised in South Jersey, Donald is committed to improving the lives of working families by focusing on the issues that matter most to them- raising wages and strengthening our economy, ensuring affordable access to a high-quality education, and supporting the brave men and women that protect our nation and our neighborhoods.

He knows firsthand what it's like to be a single parent having to balance work, family life and a checkbook. Early in Donald's career, he worked for minimum wage, and when construction work was slow or he was injured on the job, he was thankful for unemployment and disability insurance. These on-the-job experiences shape his work in Congress. Now, his top priority is raising the federal minimum wage with common-sense predictability over the next seven years to $15 an hour.

Donald is the only electrician in Congress and worked for years installing and restoring power for New Jersey homes, businesses and industrial sites. He rose through the ranks and eventually became a business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 351, as well as President of the Southern New Jersey AFL-CIO, where he advocated on behalf of thousands of hardworking men and women for nearly 20 years.

As a graduate of both Camden County College and a skilled apprenticeship program, Donald knows we need to advance job-training programs in our country. He also fully understands the value of a quality, affordable education and, as a member of the New Jersey Legislature, he played a key role in historic higher education reforms that established New Jersey as a research and medical education hub.

Donald has developed a reputation as an effective, bipartisan reformer. Among his accomplishments, he led the charge to increase New Jersey's minimum wage and championed a groundbreaking effort to improve our economy and bring new, family-sustaining jobs to the region.

As the only member of New Jersey's congressional delegation on the House Committee on Education and Labor, Donald is working to raise wages, protect the middle class, strengthen workplace protections and advance paid leave and equal pay. He also serves on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), where he focuses on protecting our national security, supporting service members and veterans, and strengthening New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He also chairs HASC's Tactical Air and Land Forces (TAL) subcommittee.

Donald was selected by his colleagues to serve as Vice Chair and Liaison to Labor for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Parliamentarian for the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and he was one of four House Democrats appointed to the Joint Select Committee on Multiemployer Pensions to work on solutions for America's retirement security crisis. Norcross is also the co-founder of the Building Trades Caucus and Vice-Chair of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.

Donald and his wife Andrea live in Camden City and are the proud parents of three grown children and grandparents of two.