Employment Section, the Women in the Profession Section and the Minority and the Profession Section. She also chaired and has co-chaired the Diversity Committee. She served as a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation in 2004. Ms. Jackson also served as an at-large trustee representing African American members of the New Jersey State Bar Association. In 2007 she was appointed South Jersey Vice Chair of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee as well as Co-Chair of the Pipeline Diversity Task Force.
Ms. Jackson was elected President of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey in June of 2003 and completed her term in 2005. This is a non-profit bar association dedicated to charitable, educational and professional pursuits and addressing issues affecting the African American legal community and community at large. Ms. Jackson was also the President of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association. This is a women’s bar association whose purpose is to support the advancement of all women lawyers throughout the state.
She was also a member of the Ocean County College Educational Opportunity Fund Advisory Board.
Previously, Ms. Jackson worked in Trenton at the Department of Law and Public Safety Office of the Attorney General as a Deputy Attorney General (DAG). She was assigned to the Office of State Police Affairs.
Intern at the Hillsborough County Prosecutors Office in Tampa, Florida, as well as, a legal intern for the Honorable Elizabeth Kovachevich of the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida also located in Tampa.
In 1996 she was a judicial law clerk at the Monmouth Vicinage in Freehold New Jersey. She clerked in the criminal division for the Honorable Theodore J. Labrecque, Vincent Hull and Michael D. Farren. She also worked as a legal assistant at the Hudson County Prosecutors Office in 1997 before becoming the first African-American female Assistant Prosecutor to be hired at the Ocean County Prosecutors Office in its 150-year history.
Ms. Jackson left the Prosecutors Office in May of 2000 and became an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Newark assigned to their Labor and Employment Section. While there she prevailed in several significant cases on behalf of the City of Newark.
Ms. Jackson is very involved in professional bar related activities and was named Young Lawyer of the Year in 2002 by the New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. She is a member of several New Jersey State Bar Association committees and sections, which includes the Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, the Labor and Employment Section, the Women in the Profession Section and the Minority and the Profession Section. She also chaired and has co-chaired the Diversity Committee. She served as a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation in 2004. Ms. Jackson also served as an at-large trustee representing African American members of the New Jersey State Bar Association. In 2007 she was appointed South Jersey Vice Chair of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee as well as Co-Chair of the Pipeline Diversity Task Force.
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