Joseph A. Maressa, Jr., Esq.
PRESIDENT
Joseph A. Maressa, Jr. was born on July 1, 1959, in Camden, New Jersey. He is the third youngest of four children and attended Assumption School in Atco, New Jersey where he excelled in sports and music. His passion for playing the drums was developed at an early age and he was a member of the school band. Maressa was also an avid equestrian and participated in many horse shows during his adolescence.
Joe attended the prestigious Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey where he was a defenseman on the ice hockey team and threw the javelin and shot put for the track team. After graduating from Peddie in 1978, he attended Rowan University where he studied business and pre-law while achieving Dean’s list status. Upon graduation from college, Maressa went to work at Title America, a family business owned by his father, the late Senator Joseph A. Maressa. At Title America, he learned all facets of the title business under the mentorship of his cousin, the late Ruthann Arnold. Joe’s outgoing personality made him a natural for business development, and area of the business in which he had significant success. Over the years, Joe was blessed with the ability to grow Title America’s market share throughout New Jersey while developing a specific expertise in new construction and commercial transactions. With a growing stable of national, regional, and local commercial and residential builders, Title America earned the reputation of being known as the “Builder’s Title Company”. As a compliment to his position at Title America and from the unrelenting urging of his father, Maressa entered the evening division of Widener University School of Law in 1988. At Widener Law, he excelled in real estate law, land transactions, commercial paper, and banking law. He was invited to become a member of Phi Delta Phi, the national honors fraternity for law students and joined the Justinian Law Society. After graduating in 1992, Maressa successfully completed the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bar Exams and joined his father’s law firm, while maintaining his duties at Title America, where he limited his practice to commercial and residential real estate transactions, land use, planning and zoning, banking law and criminal matters. Joe was named President of Title America in 1996 and expanded the company’s trade area into Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The Maressa family has a long history of philanthropy and the obligation to serve one’s community was instilled into Joe and his siblings by their father. In furtherance of this sense of duty, Joe serves as a Director of the South Jersey Port Corporation, where he is a member of the professional appointment’s committee, the Board of the Bank of Delmarva, where he is a member of the Loan and Audit committees and the Camden Diocese Real Estate Committee. Joe also serves on the Dean’s Development Council of the Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine, the Stockton University School of Business, and the Builders League of South Jersey Associates Committee. In addition, Maressa is a trustee of Jefferson Hospital New Jersey Division where he is a member of the Executive Committee and is Chairman of Kennedy Management Group.
Joe has been fortunate to receive numerous awards and honors over the years. Of note are:
John Tuscano Associate of the Year Award from the Builder’s League of South Jersey
Community Foundation of New Jersey Honoree of the Year
Non-profit Organization Trustee of the Year
Admission into the Builders League of South Jersey Associates Hall of Fame
Jersey Man Magazine Man of the Year
Joe has been married to his wife Linda since 1989. They have two children, Josephine, a graduate of Ursinus College and Vermont Law School, and Joseph III a student at St. Joseph’s University majoring in finance. Joe enjoys spending time with his family vacationing and participating in several outdoor activities.
