Paula Dow

The governor also said he would file a notice of intent to nominate Dow to a Superior Court judgeship in Essex County.

In 1978, she worked as a summer associate for the Camden law firm Tomar, Parks, Seliger, Simonoff & Adourian.

From 1980 to 1987 she worked as a lawyer for Exxon in Texas, New Jersey and New York, advising on environmental and labor issues.

[6] On December 15, 2009, in his first cabinet announcement, then-Governor-elect Chris Christie nominated Dow as Attorney General of New Jersey.

[12] In 2012, a New Jersey Senate Committee approved Governor Christie's nomination of Dow to a judgeship on the Superior Court.

[13] Dow became a judge in the Family Court Division in Burlington County, where she sat until December 2015, when she was assigned to the General Equity Part.