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| SHEILA Y. OLIVER (D) LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR-ELECT OF NEW JERSEY LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ALUMNA 1974 |
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PENNSYLVANIA -- On November 7, Sheila Oliver ’74 continued to make history in the state of New Jersey by becoming its first African American woman elected Lt. Governor. In July, Oliver was selected by then New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy to be his running mate.
Prior to being elected Lt. Governor of New Jersey, Oliver served as an elected state assemblywoman, an office she has held since 2004. In 2010 she became the first black woman to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, a position she held until 2014.
Murphy and Oliver ran in the November general election to replace term-limited Gov. Chris Christie. The lieutenant governor is first in the line of gubernatorial succession and serves as acting governor when the sitting governor is out of the state. Oliver had previously served on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1996 to 1999. She was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, and has a B. A. sociology degree (1974) from Lincoln University and was awarded an M.S. from Columbia University in Planning and Administration in 1976.
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