Judges -- New Jersey -- Newark

Abstract Judge, attorney, social worker, and community activist. The collection documents Amilkar Velez-Lopez‘s personal life and career as a Municipal Court Judge of Newark, New Jersey. Velez-Lopez became a founding member for La Casa de Don Pedro, the New York Association of Puerto Rican Social Service Workers, and the Newark Borinquen Lions Club. He was also an active member of the Puerto Rican Educators Association (PREA). Velez-Lopez was appointed as Municipal Court Judge by Mayor Sharpe James...

Abstract In 2000, Julio M. Fuentes was the first Puerto Rican/ Latino appointed to the federal 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. He was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico in 1946. His family immigrated to the United States in 1950, and settled in Tom’s River, New Jersey, in 1955. Fuentes worked as lawyer in private practice from 1975 until 1981, and worked as a judge in the Newark Municipal Court from 1979 until 1987. He then served as a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court in Essex County from 1987 until...

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The collection consists largely of photographs, documenting both Villani's personal and family life and his public activities. There is also some film of family holidays and leisure pursuits. A series of scrapbooks contain clippings, ephemera, and election records.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of eight large scrapbooks containing original correspondence and photographs, typescripts, published articles, clippings, legal and legislative material, documents related to various state commissions, conference materials, newsletters, invitations, programs, periodicals, souvenirs of European travel, and ephemera. Clippings relating to court cases and public events in Newark and incoming and outgoing correspondence (to or from Hartshorne's Newark office) from...