State of New Jersey


	Attorney General I First Assistant I Español

			Paula T. Dow Acting Attorney General

	Paula T. Dow has been nominated to be Attorney General by Governor Christopher Christie and awaits confirmation by the State Senate. Dow served as the Essex County Prosecutor since October 2003.

	From 1994 to 2003, Dow worked in the United States Attorney’s Office-District of New Jersey. She was Counsel to the U.S. Attorney and had previously worked in the Special Prosecutions Division and the Criminal Division. Dow also worked in the United States Attorney’s Office-Southern District of New York from 1987 to 1994, where she worked in the Civil Division. Prior to that, Dow worked for Exxon Company from 1980 to 1987 in Texas, New Jersey and New York, advising clients on environmental and labor matters. She began her legal career with Tomar, Parks, Seliger, Simonoff & Adourian in Camden in 1978 as a summer associate.

	Dow earned her B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College in 1977, and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1980. She has been admitted to the Bars of New Jersey, New York and Texas; United States Supreme Court; Second and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals; United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, District of New Jersey, and Northern and Southern Districts of Texas. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and also a member of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey Inc.


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