1. Nia H Gill was born on March 15,1948 and is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician, who represented the 34th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate from 2002 to 2024.
17 Facts About Nia Gill
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Nia Gill ran unsuccessfully as a candidate in the June 2012 primary election to fill the seat in Congress left vacant by the death of Donald M Payne, the former US Representative for.
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Nia Gill was born on March 15,1948, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
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Nia Gill was awarded a JD from the Rutgers Law School.
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Nia Gill was a law clerk for Essex County Superior Court Judge Harry Hazelwood, Jr.
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Nia Gill served in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, the General Assembly, from 1994 to 2002, where she was Minority Whip from 1996 to 2001.
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Nia Gill served in the Assembly on the Speaker's Education Funding Task Force and several committees including, the Assembly Democratic Senior Citizen Task Force and the Assembly Advisory Committee on the Arts, History and Humanities.
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Nia Gill became a candidate for State Senate in District 34 after some of the municipalities she had represented in the Assembly were shifted into the district.
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Senator Nia Gill has been re-elected six times, winning elections in 2003,2007,2011,2013,2017, and 2021.
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Nia Gill was the Senate President Pro Tempore from 2010 to 2017.
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Nia Gill is a sponsor of the measure recently signed into law to criminalize the deprivation of civil rights by public officials, making racial profiling a state crime.
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Nia Gill has sponsored the New Jersey Civil Rights Act, which would give individuals a remedy whenever one person deprives another person of any rights, privileges, or immunities or interferes with another's civil rights.
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Nia Gill sponsored legislation that provides a $3,000 income tax deduction for certain families providing home care for an elderly relative, legislation that abolishes the death penalty in New Jersey and has sponsored legislation allowing PAAD recipients freedom of choice in selecting a pharmacy and prohibits the imposition of a mail order system.
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Nia Gill is generally recognized as being one of the leading abortion rights advocates in New Jersey politics.
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Fellow Senator Nia Gill dropped her efforts to block Rabner's confirmation on June 19,2007, after meeting with Rabner.
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New Jersey Governor-elect Jon Corzine said on November 11,2005, that he would consider appointing Nia Gill to fill his vacant seat in the United States Senate following his resignation to become Governor of New Jersey.
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Nia Gill later chose Bob Menendez to fill the seat.