Born and raised in neighboring Paramus NJ, Doug and his wife Bina Dugan moved to Maywood ten years ago. Doug is the proud father of three, grandfather to Nash and Hailee and dog dad to his Shepherd Husky mix Cooper, all of whom keep him on his toes.
Doug is a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser and owner of The Herrick Group, LLC. He holds an A. A. S in Culinary Arts from Atlantic Cape Community College and is a graduate of the Bergen Volunteers leadership development program, BergenLEADS.
Doug is a member and Past President of the Maywood Democratic Club, the Executive Secretary and Past President of the Maywood Rotary Club, and Treasurer of the Maywood Democratic County Committee. He is a member of the Planning Board and the Maywood 4th of July Parade Committee and was previously a member of the Green Team. He has served as the Race Director for the Maywood 5k for the past two years after working on the committee that brought back the popular community event after a long hiatus. Doug is Secretary of the Food Brigade Board of Trustees and is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow.
During Doug’s previous term on the Maywood Council from 2020-2021, he chaired the Public Safety Committee and then the Public Works Committee and was a member of the Community Affairs, Personnel, and Finance committees. He was liaison to the MYAA, July 4th Parade committee, Insurance and Safety committee, the Special Improvement District, and Tannac. He created the resolution establishing the Volunteer Advisory Board as a member of council and later served as its Chairman.
A former Chef, he worked in the food service industry for over 20 years in gourmet and corporate catering. Doug was the Foodservice Director for the Bergen County Community Action Program where he ran the kitchen in the homeless shelter in Hackensack, the Bergen County Head Start feeding program and the SPICE Culinary training program. Doug continues to put his culinary skills to use through numerous Rotary events from fundraising to feeding people at the County shelter and raising money and food for local pantries. .