New Jersey Gov. Philip D. Murphy named his longtime secretary of state, Tahesha L. Way, lieutenant governor on Friday, five weeks after his former second-in-command, Sheila Y. Oliver, died in office.
Ms. Way, 51, was set to be sworn in Friday in Trenton by the state’s chief justice, Stuart Rabner.
Ms. Way became secretary of state in 2018, near the start of Mr. Murphy’s first term, and was credited at the onset of the pandemic two years later with deftly steering the state through a presidential primary and general election held for the first time almost entirely by mail.