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  Poritz, Deborah T.
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NameDeborah T. Poritz
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Born October 26, 1936 (87 years)
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Apr 30, 2003 11:28am
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InfoChief Justice Poritz was nominated by Governor Christine Todd Whitman on June 20, 1996 to serve on the Supreme Court and was confirmed on June 27, 1996. On July 10, 1996, she was sworn in as the first female Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Prior to assuming this position, she served as New Jersey’s first female Attorney General.

Justice Poritz was born on October 26, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1958, and taught at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in English and American Liturature at Columbia University.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1977, Chief Justice Poritz began her career as a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety. In 1981, she was named Assistant Chief of the Environmental Protection Section and subsequently served as Deputy Attorney General in Charge of Appeals, Chief of the Banking, Insurance and Public Securities Section, and Director of the Division of Law. From February 1989 to January 1990, she was Chief Counsel to Governor Thomas Kean. From 1990 to 1994, Chief Justice Poritz was a partner in the Princeton law firm of Jamieson, Moore, Peskin & Spicer.

Chief Justice Poritz and her husband have two sons, Jonathan and Mark.


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