L. Grace Spencer
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L. Grace Spencer | |
|---|---|
| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 29th Legislative District district | |
| In office January 8, 2008 – June 30, 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Wilfredo Caraballo William D. Payne |
| Succeeded by | Blonnie R. Watson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 15, 1968 |
| Party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University–Newark Rutgers School of Law–Newark |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Website | Assemblywoman Spencer's legislative webpage |
L. Grace Spencer (born March 15, 1968) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly where she represented the 29th Legislative District from January 8, 2008, to June 30, 2016. Since July 2016, she serves as a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court.
She served the City of Newark, New Jersey as Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1997 to 1999 and as a special prosecutor from 2000 to 2003.[1]
Spencer graduated from Queen of Angels grammar school in Newark and is a 1986 graduate of Mount Saint Dominic Academy in Caldwell, New Jersey.[2] In 1992, she graduated from the Rutgers University–Newark College of Arts and Sciences with a major in business management and was awarded a J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law – Newark in 1996. She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and before the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[3] She was formerly a partner at Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman and Goggin, handling matters arising in professional-liability-law having practiced there since 2003.[3]
She is a resident of the South Ward of Newark having lived there since 1979.[3]