| 词条 | Shirley Tolentino |
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|image = |imagesize = 250px |name = Shirley A. Tolentino |caption = |office1 = New Jersey Superior Court |term_start1 = 1984 |term_end1 = 2010 |nominator1 = Thomas Kean, Sr. |predecessor1 = |successor1 = |order2 = |office2 = Jersey City Municipal Court |term_start2 = 1976 |term_end2 = 1984 |nominator2 = Paul T. Jordan |predecessor2 = |successor2 = |birth_date = 1943 |birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey |death_date = October 31, 2010[1][1] |death_place = |party = |spouse = Dr. ErnestoTolentino |religion = }} Shirley Tolentino (1943–2010) was the first black woman to serve on the New Jersey Superior Court and was the first black woman appointed to the Jersey City Municipal Court and to serve as its presiding judge. She served as president of National Association of Women Judges. BackgroundBorn and raised in Jersey City, Tolentino graduated Henry Snyder High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in Latin from the College of St. Elizabeth (CSE) in 1965. She taught high school Latin and English before earning her law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1971. She received a master of laws degree in criminal justice from New York University School of Law in 1980.[2][3] CareerShirley Tolentino was the first black woman to serve on the Superior Court and was the first black woman appointed to the Jersey City Municipal Court and to serve as its presiding judge. Tolentino worked as a legal editor for Prentice-Hall from 1971 to 1972 and as an adjudicator for the Veterans Administration from 1972 to 1973.[5] She as a deputy attorney general from 1973 until 1976. In 1976, then-Mayor of Jersey City Paul T. Jordan appointed Tolentino as the first African-American woman to serve as a full-time municipal court judge in New Jersey.[4] She was elevated to presiding judge in 1981.[2] Governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean nominated Tolentino to the Superior Court in January 1984. She sat in the civil, criminal and family divisions during a 26-year period.[2]Judge Tolentino served on the Supreme Court Task Force on Minorities and was a member of the National Association of Women Judges, serving as president in 1996-97[2] Awards and honorsTolentno received an honorary degree from CSE in 1980. In 1981, she received the Whitney Young Award from the Hudson County Urban League. The intersection where the Hudson County Courthouse is situated was named in her honor in March 2012.[5] In 2014, a new postal facility at the HUB on MLK Drive in Jersey was designated the Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building in her honor.[3][6] References1. ^{{cite news | author = Obituary | title = Judge Shirley A. Tolentino | newspaper = The Jersey Journal | date = October 31, 2010 | url = http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/jerseyjournal/obituary.aspx?pid=146397595 | accessdate = 2014-09-18}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Tolentino, Shirley}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web | title = Judge Shirley Tolentino | publisher = New Jersey Courts | date = | url = http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/wic/tolentino.html | accessdate = 2014-09-18 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150116154437/http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/wic/tolentino.html | archivedate = 2015-01-16 | df = }} 3. ^1 {{cite news | last = McDonald | first = Terrence T | title = Bill introduced to name MLK Drive post office after late, 'trailblazing' Judge Shirley A. Tolentino | newspaper = The Jersey Journal | date = March 22, 2013 | url = http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2013/03/bill_introduced_to_name_mlk_dr.html | accessdate = 2014-09-18}} 4. ^{{cite news | work=The New York Times | last=Cook | first=Joan | date=August 17, 1976 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/17/archives/jersey-city-gets-a-black-woman-as-municipal-judge.html | title=Jersey City Gets a Black Woman as Municipal Judge}} 5. ^1 {{cite press release | title = Jersey City to Honor the Life of Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Street Renaming of the Corner of Baldwin & Newark Avenues | publisher = City of Jersey City | date = | url = http://www.cityofjerseycity.com/uploadedFiles/Public_Notices/Press_Releases/2012%20Judge%20Shirley%20A%20%20Tolentino%20Street%20Renaming%20Press%20Release.pdf | accessdate = 2014-09-18}} 6. ^{{cite news | author = House of Representatives | title = JUDGE SHIRLEY A. TOLENTINO POST OFFICE BUILDING | publisher= beta.congress.gov/ | date = March 24, 2014 | url = https://beta.congress.gov/congressional-record/2014/3/24/house-section/article/H2572-1 | accessdate = 2014-09-18}} 10 : 1943 births|2010 deaths|New Jersey state court judges|People from Jersey City, New Jersey|New York University School of Law alumni|Seton Hall University School of Law alumni|American women judges|African-American judges|Women in New Jersey politics|Superior court judges in the United States |
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