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Peter C. Harvey

American lawyer

Field	Value
imagesize	250px
name	Peter C. Harvey
order	54th
office	New Jersey Attorney General
governor	Jim McGreevey
Richard Codey
term_start	June 16, 2003
term_end	January 30, 2006
predecessor	David Samson
successor	Zulima Farber
party	Democrat
education	Morgan State University (BA)
Columbia Law School (JD)
profession	Lawyer

Richard Codey Columbia Law School (JD)

Peter C. Harvey is an attorney who became the first African American to serve as New Jersey Attorney General. Harvey was appointed by New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey as acting attorney general on February 15, 2003, and was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate as attorney general on June 16, 2003. Harvey served until 2006, when he was succeeded by Zulima Farber. Following his resignation as attorney general, he became a partner in the New York City law office of Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler.

Harvey was one of the advisers to the National Football League in the league's 2017 personal conduct investigation of Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott. He has been designated by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to hear the NFL's appeal of the suspension of Deshaun Watson.

Biography

On January 17, 2002, then-attorney general David Samson appointed Harvey to serve as first assistant attorney general and director of the Division of Criminal Justice, where he served prior to his appointment as attorney general.

Harvey received his J.D. degree in 1982 from Columbia Law School. He received a B.A. in political science from Morgan State University in 1979, where he became a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

References

"Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP".
[http://www.espn.com/pdf/2017/0811/Ezekiel-Elliott-Discipline%20Letter_8-11-17.pdf Ezekiel Elliott Discipline Letter] espn.com
(August 4, 2022). "Former New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey selected to hear NFL's appeal of Deshaun Watson decision".
[http://www.nj.gov/oag/oag/ag_2003-2006_harvey_bio.htm Peter C. Harvey], [[New Jersey Attorney General]] capsule bio. Accessed December 17, 2007.

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