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Minorities in the Profession Section

OUR LEADERSHIP

Chair
Leonard V. Jones
Jackson Lewis P.C - Berkeley Heights
200 Connell Drive
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908-577-1933

Chair-Elect
Valerie A. Jackson
Diversity Officer & Legal Liaison
Divison of Administration
Department of the Treasury
50 West State Street – 2nd Floor
PO Box 211
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-0555

First Vice Chair
Jose D. Roman
Central Jersey Legal Services, Inc.
317 George Street, Suite 201
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-763-4423
  
Second Vice Chair
Cheyne R. Scott
Chasan Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo, PC
300 Lighting Way
Secaucus, NJ 07094
201-809-6005

Treasurer
Yomara Castro
Bergen County Prosecutor's Office
Two Bergen Plaza
4th Fl.
Hackensack, NJ 07601
201-226-5828

Secretary
Nasheena Porter Poznansky
United States Attorney's Office - District of New Jersey
970 Broad Street
7th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
(732) 319-0728

Immediate Past Chair
Anthony W. Vaughn Jr.
1200 US Highway 22 East, Suite 2000
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
908-300-5455



Board of Directors
Trina L. Glass
Karen Gwynn
Diana-Marie Laventure
Lauren Jones
Janett P. Smyth

OUR MISSION

To promote the objectives of the New Jersey State Bar Association and to voice the interests and concerns of minority attorneys. The Section will hold forums and institutes for discussion of problems and questions relating to such interests. This Section will provide for the publication and dissemination of information and knowledge regarding such interests and any related field of law. The Section will consider legislation and will promote remedial law and procedures pertaining thereto. The Section will also encourage minorities to join the legal profession and the New Jersey State Bar Association.