1. Steven Richard Rothman was born on October 14,1952 and is an American former jurist and Democratic politician who served as the US representative for New Jersey's 9th congressional district, serving for 16 years from January 3,1997, to January 3,2013.
Steve Rothman was defeated on June 5,2012, in a primary election by fellow incumbent Bill Pascrell.
Steve Rothman was born on October 14,1952, in Englewood, New Jersey, to Philip and Muriel Steve Rothman; he and his twin Arthur joined an older sister Susan.
Steve Rothman attended the Roosevelt Public Elementary School in Englewood until the fifth grade when the family moved to nearby Tenafly, where he completed his education in the Tenafly Public School System.
Steve Rothman graduated in 1970 from Tenafly High School, where he was senior class president, Best School Citizen, was first clarinet, first chair in the Tenafly High School Orchestra, was a member of the Tenafly High School Madrigal Singers, played the lead in Tenafly High School's drama Twelve Angry Men, wrestled, played soccer and tennis.
Steve Rothman was a freestyle and backstroke swimmer in a New Jersey Jewish Community Center swim league and completed his Water Safety Instructor Certificate in 1971.
From 1974 to 1977 Steve Rothman attended the Washington University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri, where he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree in 1977.
In each of his three years at law school, Steve Rothman was a High School Law Project member, teaching a course he wrote on the "US Constitution and Bill of Rights" to urban and suburban high school students in the St Louis City and Metropolitan area.
In 1975, Steve Rothman won the "Best Oralist" Award in the Washington University School of Law Moot Court Competition.
Steve Rothman was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1977 and became a practicing New Jersey attorney.
Steve Rothman started his legal career as a trial associate at the firm of Miller, Hochman, Myerson and Schaeffer in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1977.
In 1977, Steve Rothman moved his residence from Tenafly to Englewood.
Steve Rothman became active in Englewood community affairs, serving as president of the Scarborough Manor Tenants' Association, where he performed pro bono legal services for the poor and elderly faced with eviction following condominium conversion.
Steve Rothman was the co-founder of the Englewood Hispanic Lion's Club and a member of the United Jewish Community of Bergen County and member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Community Center on the Palisades.
Steve Rothman held the office of Treasurer for the Bergen County Democratic Party, for State Senator Matthew Feldman, as well as for various Bergen County Democratic Freeholder campaigns.
In 1982, Steve Rothman ran for and won the city's Democratic Party nomination to be Englewood's mayor.
Steve Rothman was endorsed by the Englewood Black Clergy Council and the Englewood Patrolman's Benevolent Association.
Steve Rothman won the Democratic primary and the November 1982 general elections.
Steve Rothman served two terms as Englewood's mayor, from 1983 to 1989.
In 1984, Steve Rothman led the effort to save the regional Community Mental Health Organization, a state and county-funded agency located in Englewood that served 180,000 people, disproportionately Englewood residents, in the area.
Steve Rothman helped the CMHO achieve sustained state and county support and promoted a change of private managers, making it part of another county mental health agency while it remained in the same Englewood building.
May 19,1985, Steve Rothman was sworn in as the new president of the Bergen County Democratic Mayors Association.
Steve Rothman announced in 1988 that he would not seek a third term so that he could devote more time to family and his private law practice.
Steve Rothman continued his general practice of law in Englewood, expanding his offices and staff.
In 1989, Steve Rothman ran unsuccessfully as one of three Democratic candidates to fill three openings on the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
In 1989, Steve Rothman was appointed Chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Northern New Jersey.
In 1990 and 1991, Steve Rothman served as Treasurer of the respective Bergen County Democratic Party Freeholder races.
In 1990 and 1991, Steve Rothman was active in local affairs, joining the Wyckoff Democratic Municipal Committee and serving as its chairman.
In 1992, Steve Rothman ran for and was chosen by the Bergen County Democratic Party to be their candidate for the elected position of Bergen County Surrogate Court Judge.
Steve Rothman won the general election in November 1992, becoming the first attorney to serve in that position in the 148 years the position had been an elected one.
Steve Rothman facilitated improved access to the public by adding office phone lines and making the public documents on file in the Surrogate's Court more available by computerizing indexes and expanding availability.
In March 1995, Steve Rothman wrote and had published an 18-page booklet entitled "The Three Legal Documents Recommended For Every Bergen County Adult," which dealt with the operations of the Bergen County Surrogate's Court, probate, self-proving wills, living wills, and durable powers of attorney.
Steve Rothman conducted more than 100 seminars on wills, living wills, probate and powers of attorney, speaking directly to over 10,000 Bergen County residents.
Steve Rothman invested over $75 million in assets for minors who received settlements or judgments in Bergen County.
Steve Rothman was reelected to that seat seven more times.
Steve Rothman was encouraged by Democratic leaders and laypeople to run for the seat.
In June 1996, Steve Rothman prevailed in the Democratic Party primary to be their candidate in the general election for Congress.
At the time of the creation of this new map, Steve Rothman held a 12-year tenure on the House Appropriations committee and Pascrell had a six-year tenure on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Steve Rothman was defeated by Pascrell in the 2012 Democratic primary.
Steve Rothman lost even though the merged district was more his district than Pascrell's; he retained 53 percent of his former territory while Pascrell retained 43 percent of his.
Steve Rothman argued that while the President's conduct was "irresponsible and reprehensible," it did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense under the US Constitution.
Steve Rothman lobbied against the Mills Mall project which had been proposed in 1996 and had caused a "decade long fight" from local environmental and lobby groups.
In 2002, Steve Rothman worked with the Port Authority to ban "Stage 1" aircraft from Teterboro airport, and against Boeing Company, which had been working since 1996 to allow 737 jets into the airport.
The port authority and Rothman both criticised the proposed exceptions, and in 2003 Rothman authored a measure to stop the Federal Aviation Administration from lifting the 100,000-pound weight limit at Teterboro Airport, which was approved by the US House of Representatives and the Senate and signed into law by President George W Bush.
Steve Rothman authored "The Secure Our Schools Act," which provided hundreds of millions of federal matching funds to communities across his district and across the country so that schools could attempt to keep weapons and strangers out of schools.
In 2010, Steve Rothman worked with his congressional colleagues and the White House to obtain funding for Israel's Iron Dome defensive missile system and David's Sling, Arrow 2 and Arrow 3.
In July 2007, Steve Rothman became the highest-ranking Democrat in New Jersey to support then US Senator Barack Obama for US president.
Steve Rothman was 43 years old at the time of her death.
Steve Rothman's bill was passed by the House and Senate; and then it was signed by President Barack Obama on January 4,2011.
Steve Rothman was 51 years old at the time of his death.
Steve Rothman was 20 years old at the time of his death.
From 2003 until the end of his congressional career in 2013, Steve Rothman was involved in preventing the deportation of Malachy McAllister and his family from the United States, including intervention with the US Department of Homeland Security, and proposing House legislation on McAllister's behalf.
Steve Rothman served more than three years in a Northern Ireland prison and was released for time served by the British.
On December 7,2005, Steve Rothman signed on as a co-sponsor of Rep.
On February 22,2006, at a press conference, as well as in an op-ed published in The Record newspaper the next day, Steve Rothman became the first member of New Jersey's congressional delegation to publicly call for a withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq.
For eight days in mid-February 2007, Steve Rothman traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Kuwait as one of 15 members of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Steve Rothman was an advocate for tax reform and comprehensive immigration reform, reasonable gun control laws, gender and marriage equality, a woman's right to choose, clean air and water, smart land and energy use and conservation, and the humane treatment of animals.