Credit: NJ via Flickr TRENTON - The first Black woman to sit on New Jersey’s Supreme Court has been sworn in.Fabiana Pierre-Louis took the oath of office Tuesday during a private ceremony in Trenton.
She had been confirmed by the state senate on Thursday.Pierre-Louis, 39, had been nominated by Gov. Phil Murphy in June to succeed Justice Walter Timpone, who who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 in November.
She previously served for nearly a decade as an assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey and most recently was a partner at Montgomery McCracken in Cherry Hill, where she was in the white collar and government investigations practice.The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Pierre-Louis was the first person to go to law school.