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Deborah
T. Poritz
Attorney General
1994-1996 |
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Deborah T. Poritz was born in New York on
October 10, 1936. She graduated Magna Cum
Laude from Brooklyn College in 1958. She studied
English and American literature at Columbia
University on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship
in 1958 and 1959, and did graduate studies
in literature at Brandeis University from
1959 to 1962. |
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Poritz received her law degree from the University
of Pennsylvania Law School in 1977 and, in
December of that year, became a Deputy Attorney
General. In 1981, she was named Assistant
Chief of the department’s Environmental
Protection Section, and the following year
became Deputy Attorney General in charge of
appeals.
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Poritz
later became chief counsel to Governor Thomas
H. Kean. She was sworn in as New Jersey’s
first female Attorney General on January 18,
1994, the day of Governor Christie Todd Whitman’s
Inauguration. Poritz personally argued for
the constitutionality of Megan’s Law
requirements before the State Supreme Court,
which established the validity of the sex-offender
legislation in 1995. In that same year, she
assumed a pivotal role in insuring the passage
of legislation which significantly modernized
the juvenile justice system.
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