Dina Matos McGreevey
| Dina Matos | |
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| First Lady of New Jersey | |
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In role January 15, 2002 – November 15, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Diane DiFrancesco |
| Succeeded by | Mary Jo Codey |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 5, 1966 Cantanhede, Portugal |
| Spouse(s) | James McGreevey (m. 2000; div. 2008) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parents | Maria Matos Ricardo Matos |
Dina Matos (born November 5, 1966) is the former First Lady of New Jersey. She served as first lady during the administration of her husband, Gov. James McGreevey. In advance of an expected lawsuit, Gov. McGreevey, with Matos at his side, revealed at an August 2004 press conference that he had had an affair with a man and was resigning from office. Matos and McGreevey separated in October 2004. A divorce was granted following a trial on August 8, 2008.
Matos is the daughter of Maria and Ricardo Matos. They moved to the United States from Portugal when she was still young and settled in the heavily Portuguese Ironbound section of Newark. Maria worked in a gift shop and Ricardo worked for the railroad.
After graduating from East Side High School, she enrolled at the Newark campus of Rutgers University in 1984. She majored in political science, but also worked as a secretary while in college. Although she was enrolled until 1991, she never graduated.
Matos is a former manager of Public and Professional Relations at Saint James Hospital, and Executive Director of the Columbus Hospital Foundation in Newark, New Jersey.
Matos met James E. McGreevey in 1996, while he was mayor of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, and they began dating the following year, shortly after he lost his first bid for governor to Christie Whitman. McGreevey had separated from his first wife, Kari Schutz, in 1995 and was divorced in 1997.
They married October 7, 2000. Together they have a daughter, Jacqueline Matos McGreevey, born prematurely on December 7, 2001 after Matos had been hospitalized for six weeks.
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