Dr. Renee E. Baskerville, MD, is a distinguished pediatrician and public school physician, deeply rooted in the Township of Montclair. As a fourth-generation member of the Baskerville Family, Renee has dedicated over three decades to serving our residents. 

Her commitment to public service is exemplified by her unique role as a former Montclair School Board member and the only individual to consecutively serve three terms as Montclair’s 4th Ward Council member, totaling an impressive 12 years on the Montclair Town Council.

A proud graduate of Montclair Public Schools, Dr. Baskerville furthered her education at Oberlin

College, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. She went on to pursue her medical degree at The University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, NJ, now known as Rutgers University School of Medicine.

Dr. Baskerville’s commitment extends beyond local government, as Dr. Baskerville has actively participated in numerous organizations such as The Montclair COBRAS, People’s Organization For Progress, Montclair Grassroots Your Voice Montclair, Friends of Children, the YW and YMCAs, northInterfaith Council, Vets, Montclair Bid, the NAACP, northeast coalition, league of women’s voters, and many more. She founded and grew into a potent advocacy group, Friends of Canterbury and Nishuane Parks. She represented Montclair on Governor Murphy’s Health Transition Commission and provided voice for Montclair on the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust for roughly one decade. Dr. Baskerville is providing service to all HBCUs and to residents of Montclair, building a pipeline for more Montclairions into and through the nation’s 106 HBCUs and 80 PBIs, including Montclair Bloomfield College, as NAFEO’s probono Chief of Health and Wellbeing Initiatives. Dr. Baskerville’s extensive record of leadership and public service in Montclair reflects her dedication to community-building and her focused determined work to ensure a safe, financially strong, well-managed, richly diverse, Township in which residents can afford to remain and reside because of the balance of housing options, fair housing enforcement, safe streets, excellent safe schools, programs for our seniors that encourage cross-politicization and provide transportation to foster same.

Inspired by the legacy of service of her grandparents and parents, Charles, Sr. and Ruth, and Charles Jr. and Marjorie Baskerville, and her identical twin, Dr. Lezli Baskerville, Esq., Dr. Renee Baskerville has dedicated her adult life to serving her hometown. Simultaneously providing medical, well-being, and healing services to children and families in the Early Childhood Department of the East Orange Public Schools, in Montclair, and other cities in Essex County, Dr. Baskerville has been and continues to be a powerful advocate for holistic health: body, mind, spirit, and environmental health; and education: differentiated, lifelong education for everyone in her service communities.

Dr. Baskerville’s tenure as Montclair’s 4th Ward Town Councilor, was punctuated by unwavering focus and impactful results in addressing the priorities identified by her constituents. Through monthly CalmUnity meetings, she brought diverse residents together, building bridges and fostering unity across wards. Dr. Baskerville impactfully served on every Council committee and commission, consistently delivering affirmative results for the benefit of all Montclairions and visitors to the Township.Dr. Baskerville has fought indefatigably and will continue to fight for “a sense of place” across Montclair and in every Ward and precinct, supporting open green spaces, pedestrian shopping, bicycle paths, well maintained neighborhood recreation, community-service centers and open spaces for neighborhood “grow green” areas across Montclair.

As she looks to the future, Dr. Renee E. Baskerville remains steadfast in her life’s work of building from many diverse people with sometimes divergent interests, one collaborative whose sum is greater than the whole of its parts.

She is committed to working towards a diverse, safe, thriving, sustainable, resilient, and just Township. Driven by a vision of protected, secure, green environments, a thriving local economy, world-class services and schools, she continues to be a beacon of leadership and light in Montclair and beyond.

Call 973-746-3100 to volunteer for Dr. Baskerville’s Campaign for Mayor

Paid for by the Committee to Elect Dr. Renee Baskerville, Kathryn Curry, Treasurer, PO Box 141, Montclair, New Jersey 07042