Justice Fabiana Pierre-Louis was nominated by Gov. Phil Murphy on June 5, 2020 and was sworn in as an associate justice on September 1, 2020.  She is the first Black woman and first woman of color to serve on the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Justice Pierre-Louis is the daughter of Haitian immigrants and spent her early childhood in Brooklyn, NY before moving to Irvington, NJ when she was eight years old.  She received a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in New Brunswick and a law degree from Rutgers Law School in Camden where she was a fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

At the time of her appointment, Justice Pierre-Louis was a partner at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads in Cherry Hill where she worked in the white collar and government investigations practice group.  She focused her practice on complex commercial litigation, white collar crime, and government investigations.  Early in her career, Justice Pierre-Louis was an associate at Montgomery McCracken before joining the United States Attorney’s Office as an Assistant United States Attorney.

Justice Pierre-Louis was a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Division from 2010 to 2019.  She began working in the Newark Office in the General Crimes Unit then later in the Organized Crime and Gangs Unit where she handled diverse caseloads that included bank robberies, firearms offenses, investigations of street gangs, and narcotics offenses.  In 2012, Justice Pierre-Louis transferred to the Trenton Branch Office where she was appointed the Attorney-in-Charge from November 2016 to December 2018, the first woman of color to hold that position in the history of the district.  Justice Pierre-Louis was later appointed the Attorney-in-Charge of the Camden Branch Office and was the first woman of color to hold that position as well.  As the Attorney-in-Charge of the Trenton and Camden offices, Justice Pierre-Louis supervised all aspects of criminal matters handled by those offices, including investigations and prosecutions of large-scale drug trafficking organizations, complex mail and wire fraud offenses, healthcare and government fraud matters, and violent crimes.  Justice Pierre-Louis also continued to manage her own individual caseload and prosecuted a wide range of cases including public corruption matters, export control violations, defense contracting fraud, national security matters, and child exploitation offenses.

Justice Pierre-Louis began her legal career as a law clerk to New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice John E. Wallace Jr., whose seat she now occupies.

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