Loretta Weinberg was elected to the New Jersey State Senate (District 37) in November 2005. She is currently the Senate Majority Leader and also serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is Vice Chair of the Legislative Oversight Committee and Co-Chair of the select legislative committee investigating “Bridgegate.” She also sits on the New Jersey Israel Commission, New Jersey Historical Commission and State Legislative Services Commission. She has been appointed by the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court to an ad hoc committee to look at domestic violence and the court system.

Prior to joining the State Senate, she served in the New Jersey General Assembly for 14 years. In 2004, after 10 years of work, Senator Weinberg’s .08 legislation, which lowers the legal alcohol level to .08 in New Jersey, was signed into law. She sponsored the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act, which prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces. She has also sponsored legislation that overhauled the jury selection process; required health insurance companies to pay for at least 48 hours of hospital care for new mothers and their babies; created the Governor's Advisory Council on Adolescent Pregnancy; and shaped a landmark autism research funding bill that gives $1.00 from every New Jersey traffic violation to autism research which is projected to yield $20 million toward autism research within five years.

In April 2018, a groundbreaking bill she worked on with Senator Diane Allen was signed into law. Governor Phil Murphy signed into Law the Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act which amends the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination to provide enhanced equal pay protections for New Jersey Employees. Throughout her career in public service, Senator Weinberg has devoted many hours to her community and to local, state-wide, and national organizations that seek to improve the lives of men, women, and children.

Nancy Erika Smith is a partner at Smith Mullin in Montclair, New Jersey. Ms. Smith graduated from Rutgers Law School in Newark in 1980. Since then, she has practiced in the area of employment and civil rights law for plaintiffs. She has tried many cases to successful verdict and won many appeals which have resulted in published opinions.

Ms. Smith is active in many professional organizations. She served for two years as

Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and has served on its Executive Committee for more than 20 years. She was a Trustee of the Essex County Bar Association (ECBA) from 2002 until 2008. She served for five years on the District Ethics Committee, and for many years on the ECBA Judicial Appointments Committee. She also served as co-chair of the NJSBA Judicial Appointments Committee. She is an author and a member of the Editorial Board of New Jersey Labor and Employment Law, published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the New Jersey State Bar 3 Association. Ms. Smith was a member of the national Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) for six years.

Ms. Smith was a founder and Chair of the Board of Wynona’s House, a child advocacy center, since its inception as a non-profit in 2004 until 2012. She was recognized with the President’s Meritorious Service Award by the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies for her work in furtherance of civil justice and children’s rights. In 2010, Ms. Smith was appointed to the Joint Commission on Legislative Ethics. From 2012 until 2017, Ms. Smith was a member of the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice.