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- ↑ Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 198, Part 2, p. 221. J.A. Fitzgerald., 1979. Accessed August 11, 2022. "Mrs. Berman was born in Brooklyn April 30, 1938. She attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn and was graduated from Brooklyn College, cum laude, in 1959."
- 1 2 Waldron, Martin. "Women Gaining Stature in Legislature", The New York Times , December 4, 1977. Accessed October 27, 2016. "Mrs. Berman is the Director of Consumer Affairs for Camden County. She and Mrs. Croce are from the same district, and it will be the first time that both Assembly seats from one district have been held by women."
- ↑ Results of the General Election Held November 8, 1977 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Department of State. Accessed November 27, 2016.
- ↑ Waldron, Martin. "Trenton Topics: Assembly Will Have 12 Women Members – A Record", The New York Times , November 12, 1977. Accessed November 27, 2016. "Two women were elected from one district—the Sixth, which consists of parts of Camden and Burlington Counties. This has never happened before. They are Mary Keating Croce of Pennsauken and Barbara Berman of Cherry Hill, both Democrats."
- ↑ Hanley, Robert. "Informality and Children Reign in Trenton", The New York Times , January 11, 1978. Accessed October 27, 2016. "Twelve women, a record number, were sworn in for two-year Assembly terms. And for the first time in the history of the Legislature, women now occupy both seats in a single legislative district. They are Mary Keating Croce, a 49-year-old three-term Democrat from Pennsauken, and Barbara Berman, a 39-year-old freshman Democrat and lawyer from Cherry Hill."
- ↑ Results of the General Election Held on November 6, 1979 Archived April 28, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Department of State. Accessed October 27, 2016.
- ↑ Sullivan, Joseph F. "A Clear Choice Confronts the Voters In One New Jersey Assembly Contest", The New York Times , October 15, 1989. Accessed October 27, 2016. "The incumbents, Republican Assemblymen John A. Rocco, 53 years old, and Thomas J. Shusted, 63, oppose a woman's right to choose abortion, while their Democratic challengers, former Assemblywoman Barbara Berman, 51, and retired Superior Court Judge Mary Ellen Talbott, 67, support that right. Mr. Rocco would allow abortions when a woman's life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest. Mr. Shusted would make no exception. The incumbents and challengers acknowledge that they present a clear choice to those for whom abortion is the overriding issue, but they differ on how important the issue will be in deciding the winners on Nov. 7."
- ↑ O'Brien, Ellen. "Shusted To Stay In Assembly Judge Rules Him Election Winner" [ dead link ], The Philadelphia Inquirer , December 2, 1989. Accessed October 27, 2016. "The state's longest-run Assembly race ended, finally, in State Superior Court yesterday, when Judge Donald Bigley agreed to rule on the eligibility of 12 contested absentee ballots – and then ruled in favor of Shusted's position on each vote.... When the Sixth District votes were tallied on election night, Berman appeared to have edged back into office by 122 votes. But Shusted called for a recount, and after all the votes – including absentee ballots – were recounted by the Board of Elections, he emerged the winner by 34 votes."
- ↑ Carlozo, Louis R.; and Sipress, Alan. "Berman Departs Race For Cherry Hill Mayor", The Philadelphia Inquirer , August 31, 1991. Accessed October 27, 2016. "Independent Barbara Berman has dropped out of the race for mayor of Cherry Hill, leaving maverick Mayor Susan Bass Levin in a two-way battle with Republican Brian Greenberg."