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Trailblazer: Justice Fabiana Pierre-Louis

January 18, 2021 12:30 amJanuary 17, 2021 9:49 pm

Fabiana Pierre-Louis is the first Black woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Gov. Phil Murphy nominated Pierre-Louis as an Associate Justice of the state’s top court in 2020. She was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and replaced...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 18, 2021 12:05 amJanuary 16, 2021 10:36 pm

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Lawrenceville, was the first Black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department of...

Pierre-Louis confirmed to New Jersey Supreme Court

August 27, 2020 2:04 pmAugust 27, 2020 2:32 pm

The State Senate unanimously voted to confirm former federal prosecutor Fabiana Pierre-Louis to the New Jersey Supreme Court Thursday, putting a black woman on that bench for the first time in the state’s history. “I’m incredibly proud that the Senate...

New Jersey’s first black Supreme Court Justice praise Pierre-Louis nomination

June 11, 2020 4:10 pm

The first black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court today praised Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Fabiana Pierre-Louis to fill his old seat. “I met Fabiana years ago, and I recall Justice Wallace introducing us,” said retired Associate...

Lagana calls Pierre-Louis ‘exciting and dynamic nominee’

June 9, 2020 2:10 pm

State Sen. Joseph Lagana (D-Paramus) is looking forward to learning more about Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a former federal prosecutor nominated last week to serve as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. “In this moment, as our nation cries...

Watson Coleman praises Murphy top court pick

June 8, 2020 6:47 pm

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) says she’s heard great things about Gov. Phil Murphy’s nominee for Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Fabiana Pierre-Louis. “I’m excited,” Watson Coleman told the New Jersey Globe. “I commend the governor for...

N.J. Supreme Court: The Christie Court

June 7, 2020 10:12 pmJune 7, 2020 11:23 pm

The ninth governor of New Jersey to serve under the 1947 State Constitution was Republican Chris Christie, who became the first in history to refuse the reappointment of a sitting justice – he did it twice – and the first...