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ABWL-NJ Meets With U.S. Senator Lautenberg.

	ABWL Meets with the Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg, U.S. Senator. There are many issues facing New Jerseyans and the legal communities of color that are of mutual concern to Senator Lautenberg and the leadership of ABWL.

		Pictured from left to right: Linda McDonald Carter, Esq., Cassandra T. Savoy, Esq. Secretary, Sharon Price-Cates, Esq. President, Cynthia T. McCoy, Esq. Treasurer.

ABWL-NJ - Ambassadors To American Heart Association's Health Disparities Project


Health Care disparities is a significant matter of concern to ABWL-NJ. The American Heart Association, through its New Jersey State Director, initiated a collaboration with ABWL-NJ in its effort to reach communities of color and to partner with ABWL-NJ as opportunities arise to do combined programming incident to ABWL-NJ's Community Law Day educational forums throughout the state. Heart and cardiovascular disease takes a tremendous toll on communities of color. The American Heart Association maintains a goal of securing funding from the Centers for Disease Control to support comprehensive, state-based, cardiovascular prevention programs in all 50 states.

Assemblyman Stanley A. Craig, 28th Legislative District pictured at center. To his left ABWL president Sharon Price-Cates, Esq. and to his right ABWL member Barbara George Johnson, Esq., who shares her expertise on legislative matters. Picture taken at Press Conference at the State House in Trenton, New Jersey.

Margaret Leggett Tarver, Esq. Recently Elected Chair of the Jurisprudence Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS).


Margaret Leggett Tarver is the first African- American to hold this position. The 6000 members of the Academy include physicians, attorneys, dentists, toxicologists, physical anthropologists, document examiners, psychiatrists, engineers, physicists, chemists, criminalists, educators and others representing all 50 United States, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide. The Academy is dedicated to promoting education for and research in the forensic sciences; elevating the standards and advancing forensic science; improving the practice of and promoting interdisciplinary communications within the field. Ms. Leggett Tarver who earned her law degree from Seton Hall University, a Master of Science in Biochemistry from Howard University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Talladega College achieved the status of Fellow in the Academy.
Ms. Leggett Tarver is a retired Laboratory Director of one of New Jersey's four forensic laboratories. In addition to her recent accomplishments, Ms. Leggett Tarver is a past president of the ABWL-NJ who has given many years of continuous and sustained service to the organization.