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Anne Elise Thompson

American judge (born 1934)

Field	Value
name	Anne Elise Thompson
office	Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
term_start	June 1, 2001
office1	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
term_start1	1994
term_end1	2001
predecessor1	John F. Gerry
successor1	John Winslow Bissell
office2	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
term_start2	November 2, 1979
term_end2	June 1, 2001
appointer2	Jimmy Carter
predecessor2	Seat established by 92 Stat. 1629
successor2	Stanley R. Chesler
office3	County Prosecutor of Mercer County, New Jersey
term_start3	1975
term_end3	1979
office4	Judge of the Trenton Municipal Court
term_start4	1972
term_end4	1975
office5	Municipal Prosecutor of the Lawrence Township
term_start5	1970
term_end5	1972
birth_name	Anne Elise JenkinsThe International Who's Who of Women (2002) - page 572
birth_date
birth_place	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
spouse	William H. Thompson
education	Howard University (BA, LLB)
Temple University (MA)

| honorific-prefix = | honorific-suffix = Temple University (MA) Anne Elise Thompson (born July 8, 1934) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She was the first female and first African American federal judge in New Jersey.

Early life

Anne is the daughter of Leroy H. Jenkins and Mary E. Jackson. Her father was a dentist and her mother was originally from Wilson, North Carolina, which was a town of strict segregation, but also was said to be "the bright leaf tobacco market for the East".

Education and career

Thompson was born in Philadelphia. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in 1955, a Master of Arts from Temple University in 1957, and a Bachelor of Laws from Howard University School of Law in 1964. She was an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor of the United States Department of Labor in Chicago from 1964 to 1965. She was a grant writer for United Progress, Inc. from 1966 to 1967. She became an assistant deputy public defender for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender in the Mercer-Somerset-Hunterdon Region of Trenton, New Jersey from 1967 to 1970. She was the Municipal Prosecutor for Lawrence Township in Lawrenceville, New Jersey from 1970 to 1972. She was a municipal court judge for the City of Trenton, New Jersey from 1972 to 1975. She was a prosecutor for Mercer County, New Jersey from 1975 to 1979.

Federal judicial service

On September 28, 1979, Thompson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey created by 92 Stat. 1629. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 31, 1979, and received her commission on November 2, 1979. Judge Thompson was the first woman to serve as a federal district court judge in the state of New Jersey. She was also the first African American federal judge to serve in the state of New Jersey. She served as Chief Judge from 1994 to 2001, and assumed senior status on June 1, 2001. She took inactive senior status on May 20, 2022. https://www.njd.uscourts.gov/sites/njd/files/LACMinutes06-06-22.pdf

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[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c051766765;view=2up;seq=1266;skin=mobile Selection and confirmation of federal judges hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session (1979) - page 593]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20191104163856/https://afamwilsonnc.com/2019/07/06/mary-elise-jackson-jenkins-of-philadelphia-pennsylvania/comment-page-1/ MARY ELISE JACKSON JENKINS OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA]
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