Virginia Long

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Virginia Long
Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
In office
September 1, 1999 March 1, 2012

Virginia Long (born March 1, 1942) is a former justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She is currently Counsel in the Princeton, N.J. office of Fox Rothschild.

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Biography

Born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Long graduated from Benedictine Academy in 1959, from Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross in 1963. [1]

She graduated from Rutgers School of Law—Newark in 1966 and has served as a Deputy Attorney General and was the Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking. She was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1978, and was elevated to the Appellate Division in 1984.

Justice Long became a presiding judge in 1995. She was nominated by Governor Christine Todd Whitman on June 17, 1999, to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Her position was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on June 21, 1999, and was sworn in on September 1, 1999. On June 21, 2006, the state Senate granted her tenure following the initial seven years. She retired from the New Jersey Supreme Court on March 1, 2012, and was subsequently appointed chair of the NJ Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct. [2] In 2018, she was appointed by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy as a member of the Judicial Advisory Panel, [3] and has been additionally appointed in 2022 by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to chair the newly created Committee to Analyze Duration of Disbarment. [4] She has been of counsel at Fox Rothschild of Philadelphia and Princeton, New Jersey.[ when? ]

Personal life

Long is married to Jonathan D. Weiner, a partner at Fox Rothschild, and has three children, Bernardita, John, and Jane.

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References

  1. Rutgers Oral History Archive Interview of Associate Justice Virginia A. Long, Judiciary of New Jersey, December 3, 2018. Accessed August 7, 2024. "Justice Long describes her youth in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the daughter of first-generation parents, an Irish-American policeman and an Italian-American secretary and Democratic Party activist. She traces her Catholic school days from Immaculate Conception School (1947-1955) to Benedictine Academy (1955-1959), both in Elizabeth, to Dunbarton College of Holy Cross in Washington, D.C. (1959-1963).... I was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 1, 1942."
  2. law.com. "Ethics Panel Urges NJ Judge's Removal". Yahoo. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  3. State of New Jersey. "Governor Murphy Announces Selection of Judicial Advisory Panel". State of New Jersey. State of New Jersey. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  4. New Jersey Judiciary. "Supreme Court Names Members of Committee to Analyze Duration of Disbarment" (PDF). New Jersey Judiciary. New Jersey Judiciary. Retrieved 23 June 2022.