State Attorney General Nominee Farber
A partner in the Roseland law firm Zulima V. Farber would be the first Hispanic to head the New Jersey’s Department of Law and Public Safety.
At her confirmation hearing today, state attorney general nominee Farber is likely to be asked about her driving record, her sparse experience as a prosecutor, her solutions for the troubled office and her statements against mandatory sentences.
She lacks the experience for the kind of AG Corzine said he wanted. As attorney general, Farber would head the Department of Law and Public Safety, whose nearly 9,000 employees include the New Jersey State Police.
A former state public advocate and public defender, Farber would arrive in the top law-enforcement job in the state with limited prosecutorial experience. She was an assistant Bergen County prosecutor from July 1975 to November 1978.
Her record has left some political observers scratching their heads about Corzine's choice because during last year's campaign, he pledged a stellar appointee.
Note: Hispanics make up 14.2 percent of the state’s population and Corzine's gubernatorial bid garnered nearly 80 percent of New Jersey's Hispanic vote
