Samuel T. Frisby Sr.

Office: CAB 216
640 S. Broad Street
PO Box 8068
Trenton, NJ 08650

Telephone: 609-989-6557
Fax: 609-393-2698
Email: sfrisby@mercercounty.org

Term Ending: December 2024

Residence: City of Trenton

Samuel T. Frisby Sr. has spent his professional career advocating for children, the underrepresented, and the underserved. He comprehends the significance of engaging communities and utilizing their collective momentum to strengthen the processes of successful social change. It is his unique ability to build consensus and create strategic connections that have allowed him to lead successful change in the organizations he’s served over the years. Whether in his elected capacity, his executive leadership roles, or as a music and spiritual leader, service speaks to the core of who Sam is and how he approaches life. 

Having worked in several different industries, it has been his pleasure to bring a multifaceted, high-level skillset to every leadership endeavor that he has encountered. Sam has had the fortune of working as a leader in the private sector, higher education, the executive and legislative side of government, and as a non-profit Executive. The multiple levels of experience give Mr. Frisby a unique perspective on solutions to difficult issues. After 10 years as the CEO of a local YMCA, he made a transition to YMCA of the USA as the Director of Strategic Intervention, engaging local YMCAs across the country to find better paths to compliance and sustainability. At the end of 2022, he was asked to lead Certification & Membership Standards at Y-USA, as Vice President. 

Over the past 30 years, Samuel Frisby has a proven track record of success in every industry that he has been involved in leading. He has been elected five times as a County Commissioner, served as a cabinet member in the city government of New Jersey’s State Capital, designed and developed two nationally recognized programs, led the revitalization of the Capital Area YMCA (tripling its revenue along with a major facility renovation), and has been recognized as CFO of the year for small non-profits. 

 Samuel is a graduate of Howard University’s School of Social Work, where he received a bachelor’s and received his Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Springfield College. He currently resides in Trenton New Jersey doing what he considers to be the most important work of his life, serving the Lord Jesus Christ, while being a husband to his wife Teska and a father to Samuel Jr. and Theodore.