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TRENTON
– Attorney General Anne Milgram has
appointed Supervising Deputy Attorney General
Marsetta Lee as Director of the New
Jersey Victims of Crime Compensation Office.
The Victims of Crime Compensation Office is
the agency within the Attorney General’s
Office that provides compensation to innocent
victims of violent crime for certain expenses
they suffer as a result of the crime. The
mission of the office is to provide such assistance,
as stipulated by state statute, while treating
crime victims with dignity and fairness.
“Marsetta
Lee brings a great breadth of knowledge and
experience to the Victims of Crime Compensation
Office,” said Attorney General Milgram.
“She has the compassion and the skills
needed to effectively manage the office and
ensure that it delivers quality services to
victims of crime in New Jersey.”
“I
am honored to have been chosen by Attorney
General Milgram to serve as Director of the
Victims of Crime Compensation Office,”
Lee said. “I look forward to this opportunity
to work on behalf of victims of violent crime.
We must strive to provide them with respect
and assistance, consistent with state law
and the mission of the Office.”
During
her 20-year career with the Division of Criminal
Justice, Lee has had the opportunity to serve
victims in several capacities. As Legal Counsel
to the Office of the State Medical Examiner
and the Regional Medical Examiner’s
Office from 1993 to 1999, she assisted families
who had lost loved ones to crime to navigate
through the Medical Examiner’s system
in their time of grief. Lee was assigned to
assist in the implementation of the Open Public
Records Act (OPRA), which has made it easier
for victims and their families to obtain documents.
Lee
was Supervising Deputy Attorney General in
the Policy and Planning Unit from 2000 to
2002. In 2002, Lee joined the Law Enforcement
Services Bureau as Deputy Chief and managed
the reorganization of the State Office of
Victim Witness Services. She restructured
the Office of Victim Witness Services in order
to maximize the use of grant funds for victim
services. She instituted mandatory site visits
to make certain that victims were receiving
adequate services; initiated internal office
training to ensure that the staff was knowledgeable
about necessary federal and state regulations
pertaining to victim services; and coordinated
the implementation of VINE (Victim Information
and Notification Everyday), which provides
notification to victims when offenders are
released from prison or there is any other
change in their custody status.
Since
2006, Lee has served as a Deputy Chief for
Operation CeaseFire, assisting in the development
and implementation of that program, which
seeks to reduce gun violence in New Jersey’s
cities through coordinated law enforcement
efforts and community outreach.
Lee
graduated magna cum laude from Talladega College
in 1984 and received her law degree from Temple
University School of Law in 1987. She began
her legal career as a law clerk for Superior
Court Judge Joseph F. Greene Jr. in Camden
County. She joined the Division of Criminal
Justice in 1988 as a Deputy Attorney General
in the Appellate Section.
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