Shavar Jeffries
| Shavar D. Jeffries | |
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| Newark Public Schools Advisory Board President | |
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In office April 2010 – April 2011 |
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| Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General Attorney General of New Jersey | |
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In office January 2008 – January 2010 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1974 (age 42–43) Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | Newark |
| Website | http://www.shavarjeffries.com |
Shavar Jeffries is an American civil rights attorney who in September 2015 became the president of Democrats for Education Reform which promotes more charter schools, school funding and stricter teacher evaluations to revamp public education. A former assistant state Attorney General, he was a candidate in the 2014 election for Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. after which he became a partner at Lowenstein Sandler in August 2014.
Jeffries grew up in the South Ward of Newark. He lost his mother to violence was raised by his grandmother, a public school teacher. He first attended Newark Public Schools and later received a scholarship to attend Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange. Jeffries obtained his bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1996. After graduating he attended Columbia Law School where he served as managing editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and clerked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He received his Juris Doctor in 1999. Jeffries lives in the South Ward with his wife and their two children.
After law school, Jeffries clerked for Judge Nathaniel R. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He then worked as an associate with Wilmer Cutler & Pickering. Since 2001, Shavar has been counsel at Gibbons P.C., a firm based at the Gateway Center in Newark.
Jeffries has been an associate professor at the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School since 2004. In 2008-2010, he took a leave of absence to serve as Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram and led several departments, including the Juvenile Justice Commission and the Civil Rights Division.
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