Virginia Long
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Virginia Long (born March 1, 1942) is a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
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Virginia Long graduated from Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and Rutgers Law School in 1966. She has served as a Deputy Attorney General and was the Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Arrairs and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking. She was appointed to the Superior Court in 1978, and was elevated to Appellate Division in 1984.
Justice Long became a presiding judge in 1995. She was nominated by Governor Christine Todd Whitman on June 17, 1999 to serve on the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Her position was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on June 21, 1999, and was officially sworn in on September 1, 1999. On June 21, 2006 the state Senate granted her tenure following the initial seven years.
Justice Long is married to Jonathan D. Weiner, a partner at Fox Rothschild of Philadelphia and Lawrenceville, and has three children, Bernardita, John, and Jane.
