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Gurbir Singh Grewal

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  1. Gurbir Grewal (born June 23, 1973) is the sixty-first Attorney General of the State of New Jersey. Appointed by Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy, he was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on January 16, 2018.
  2. He is the first Sikh-American Attorney General in United States history.
  3. Grewal was formerly the county prosecutor of Bergen County, New Jersey, originally appointed in 2016; he is the first Sikh American to be named a county prosecutor in the United States.
  4. Grewal is the son of Indian immigrants to the United States.
  5. He grew up in Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey and graduated from West Essex High School.
  6. Grewal received his B.A. degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
  7. He received his J.D. degree from William & Mary Law School and graduated in 1999.
  8. He has served as president of the South Asian Bar Association of New York and a member of the New Jersey Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association.
  9. Gurbir Grewal is a resident of Glen Rock, New Jersey, in Bergen County.
  10. Grewal is a father of three,and his wife’s name is Amrit.
  11. He is also fluent in the Punjabi and Hindi languages.
  12. Born to Indian immigrant parents in Jersey City and raised in Hudson and Bergen counties, Grewal served as a federal prosecutor in New York and New Jersey before Gov.
  1. Tall and lean with a neatly beard and, yes, a turban, Grewal was named by Murphy, a Democrat, as attorney general, taking up a post historically held, with a few notable exceptions, by white men.
  2. He lives in Glen Rock with his wife and three daughters and makes the long commute to Trenton to serve as the state’s top law enforcement official, where his duties include overseeing major investigations, setting policy for police officers across the state and managing what is essentially New Jersey’s largest law firm.
  3. Grewal has helped Murphy wage legal fights over some of the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration, including immigration enforcement, and news coverage of those efforts often makes mention of his ethnic background.
  4. Born to Indian immigrant parents in Jersey City and raised in Hudson and Bergen counties, Grewal served as a federal prosecutor in New York and New Jersey before Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, named him the top prosecutor in Bergen County in 2016. Tall and lean with a neatly beard and, yes, a turban, Grewal was named by Murphy, a Democrat, as attorney general, taking up a post historically held, with a few notable exceptions, by white men.
  5. He lives in Glen Rock with his wife and three daughters and makes the long commute to Trenton to serve as the state’s top law enforcement official, where his duties include overseeing major investigations, setting policy for police officers across the state and managing what is essentially New Jersey’s largest law firm.
  6. Grewal has helped Murphy wage legal fights over some of the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration, including immigration enforcement, and news coverage of those efforts often makes mention of his ethnic background.
 

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