Deborah Tobias Poritz was born on October 26,1936 and is an American jurist.
13 Facts About Deborah Poritz
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Deborah Poritz was the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1996 to 2006, and was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1994 to 1996, in both cases becoming the first woman to serve in that position.
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Deborah Poritz became a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in English and American Literature at Columbia University.
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Deborah Poritz later served as Deputy Attorney General in Charge of Appeals, Chief of the Banking, Insurance and Public Securities Section, and later as Director of the Division of Law, and finally she was named the Chief Counsel to Governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean.
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Deborah Poritz was the first woman to serve as Attorney General of New Jersey.
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Deborah Poritz was nominated to the position by Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman in January 1994.
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Deborah Poritz served as attorney general until she took office as chief justice.
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Deborah Poritz was nominated to be Chief Justice by Governor Whitman on June 20,1996, and was confirmed on June 27,1996.
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Deborah Poritz was sworn in as the first female Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court on July 10,1996.
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Deborah Poritz served until October 25,2006, when she retired, due to New Jersey's mandatory retirement age for judges.
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Deborah Poritz served as one of seven members of the Judicial Advisory Panel until 2010 when she and the other members of the panel resigned to protest Governor Chris Christie's decision not to renominate Supreme Court Justice John Wallace.
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In 2011, Deborah Poritz joined the Rutgers School of Law in Newark and in Camden as a resident professor.
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In 2016, at a Princeton Public Library book discussion, Deborah Poritz criticized governor and candidate for president Chris Christie, saying that she did not see a legacy of his governance.