Sheila Oliver in a stirring, four-hour public funeral. Oliver, the first Black woman to serve as speaker of the New Jersey Assembly ... that included time as an East Orange school board member ...

Sheila Oliver, the first Black woman to serve as New Jersey's Assembly speaker and ... Her family first settled in East Orange for a few years before moving to Newark. She graduated from Newark's ...

Sheila Oliver ... State of New Jersey. It was the best decision I ever made," said Murphy in his statement. "As someone who was born and raised in Newark, and who has called East Orange home ...

Ms. Oliver, 71, was the first Black woman to hold statewide elected office there, after a long tenure in the General Assembly. By Tracey Tully Sheila Y. Oliver, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor ...

“Sheila Oliver's legacy will forever be etched in New Jersey's history as the first woman of color to hold a statewide ... to her work.” “From East Orange to the Statehouse, Lieutenant ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Emotional statements have been pouring in lamenting the late New Jersey Lieutenant ... Governor Sheila Oliver. Starting out as a member of the East Orange Board of Education ...

Sheila Oliver rose out of local politics in the Democratic stronghold of Essex County to the height of power in New Jersey — often ... her a lot for saving East Orange General,” said Giblin ...