By Nelson A. King
A Brooklyn-born Haitian
American lawyer has created
history by becoming the first
Black woman to serve on New
Jersey’s Supreme Court after
the full Senate voted unanimously
to confirm her on
Thursday.
The Democratic-led New Jersey
Senate Judiciary Committee
had also voted unanimously
on Monday to advance Fabiana
Pierre-Louis’s nomination.
“Fabiana is an exceptionally
talented attorney, and will
now have the historic distinction
of becoming the first Black
woman to be seated on our
state’s highest court,” said New
Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who
had nominated Pierre-Louis,
the daughter of Haitian immigrants,
on June 5, in a statement.
“I am honored to have put
her name forward, and to see
someone with a different set of
life experiences and perspectives
on our Supreme Court, a
judicial body where New Jerseyans
from all walks of life turn
for justice,” added the governor
soon after the Senate vote.
Pierre-Louis, 39 — a former
prosecutor, who moved, with
her parents, from Brownsville,
Brooklyn, when she was 8,
to Irvington, NJ — succeeds
Justice Walter Timpone, who
reaches the mandatory retirement
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on the New Jersey Supreme
Court.
With her nomination, Pierre-
Louis becomes the youngest
person to serve as Justice on
New Jersey’s highest court. She
could sit on the court for up to
30 years before reaching the
mandatory retirement age.
“I know how important it is
for young people to see people
who look like them, or come
from similar neighborhoods as
them, or similar backgrounds,
to see those people in positions
of leadership,” Pierre-Louis
said.
At the time of her nomination,
she described the historic
moment as the “honor of a
lifetime.”
Currently a partner in the
New Jersey law firm of Montgomery,
McCracken, Walker &
Rhoads, LLP, Pierre-Louis is
just over 20 years younger than
the next-youngest member of
the New Jersey Supreme Court,
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner,
who is 60.
“The fact that I sit here today
with the opportunity to sit on
the court is beyond words,”
Pierre-Louis said. “I understand
the importance and magnitude
of my nomination to the highest
court in the state.”
At Montgomery McCracken’s
White Collar and Government
Investigations practice group,
Pierre-Louis said she focuses
her practice on complex commercial
litigation, white collar
crime and government investigations.
Prior to her return to Montgomery
McCracken, Pierre-
Louis said she served for nine
years in the United States Attorney’s
Office for the District of
New Jersey as an Assistant US
Attorney and the Attorney-in-
Charge of the Camden Branch
Office, the first woman of color
to hold that position in the history
of the district.
As Attorney-in-Charge,
Pierre-Louis said she was
responsible for supervising all
aspects of criminal matters
handled by the Camden Office,
including criminal trials, investigations
and prosecutions of
large-scale mail and wire fraud
offenses, healthcare and government
fraud matters, and
narcotics, firearms and violent
crime offenses.
She also investigated and
prosecuted her own individual
caseload focusing on public
corruption matters, federal narcotics
offenses, export control
violations, defense contracting
fraud, national security matters
and child exploitation offenses.
Fabiana Pierre-Louis, Esq.
Haitian-American lawyer makes
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