Shirley Tolentino

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.

[1] Governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean nominated Tolentino to the Superior Court in January 1984.

[1] 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[1] Tolentino received an honorary degree from College of St. Elizabeth in 1980.

The intersection where the Hudson County Administration Building is situated was named in her honor in March 2012.

[4] In 2014, a new postal facility on MLK Drive in Jackson Hill, Jersey City was designated the Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building in her honor.

Street sign at Newark and Central avenues in Jersey City
Bergen South Post Office at building name in Tolentino's honor