Judge Joan Robinson Gross swears in Adrian O. Mapp as 2012 City Council president.
The City Council will mark the retirement of Judge Joan Robinson Gross Monday with a resolution.
The text of the resolution is not yet available, but according to Ethel M. Washington's book, Union County Black Americans, Judge Joan Robinson Gross became the Plainfield Municipal Court judge in 1985. In 1987, she was named Presiding Judge - Municipal Courts of Union County.
She co-founded the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey and was the first female judge in Union County.
A Plainfield High School alumna, she is a 1971 graduate of Douglass College of Rutgers University and a 1974 graduate of Columbia University School of Law.
Best wishes to Judge Robinson Gross on her retirement!
--Bernice
Good Luck and God Bless Judge Gross! We will be lucky to find a jurist of her caliber to fill her position.
ReplyDeleteJudge Gross has been a fair and great servant of the people of Plainfield. I wish her the best and thank her for her great work over the years.
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