Gurbir Grewal (born June 23, 1973) is the sixty-first Attorney General of the State of New Jersey. Appointed by Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy, he was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on January 16, 2018. He is the first Sikh-American Attorney General in United States history.
Grewal was formerly the county prosecutor of Bergen County, New Jersey, originally appointed in 2016; he is the first Sikh American to be named a county prosecutor in the United States.
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Early life and career
Grewal is the son of Indian immigrants to the United States. He grew up in Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey and graduated from West Essex High School. Grewal finished his undergraduate degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He attended William & Mary Law School and graduated in 1999.
He has served as president of the South Asian Bar Association of New York and a member of the New Jersey Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association.
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Career in law enforcement
Before becoming Bergen County's top law enforcement officer, Gurbir Grewal served as the chief of the Economic Crimes Unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey under former federal prosecutor Paul Fishman. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie nominated Grewal to lead the Bergen County Prosecutor's office in 2013, but Grewal was never scheduled for a New Jersey Senate confirmation hearing then. Grewal was confirmed by the State Senate when tapped by Christie the second time around in January 2016 as acting prosecutor, and was finalized in the role in November 2016. In this capacity, Grewal has concentrated on fighting the opioid epidemic and white-collar crimes, upholding constitutional rights, and strengthening relations between police and communities.
In July 2017, while Bergen County prosecutor, Grewal ordered the Mahwah, New Jersey police department not to enforce a ban on non-New Jersey residents using Mahwah parks, stating his concern that a ban could lead to anti-Semitic religious profiling against Orthodox Jews visiting from neighboring Rockland County, New York.
Personal life
Gurbir Grewal is a resident of Glen Rock, New Jersey, in Bergen County. Grewal is a father of three, and his wife's name is Amrit. He is also fluent in the Punjabi and Hindi languages.
See also
- Governorship of Phil Murphy
- Indian Americans in New Jersey
- Notable people from Glen Rock, New Jersey
- United States constitutional law
References
External links
- Official Bio at the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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