The New Jersey State Bar Association's Board of Trustees approved the selection of Janice Heinold to serve as the Burlington County trustee at its recent meeting.
Heinold will replace the former trustee from the county, Edward Hoffman, who was appointed to the superior court bench. The vote happened at the July 13 meeting of the board at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.
Heinold practices in the areas of real estate, workers' compensation, estate administration, and civil litigation. She has extensive experience with professional organizations and is a past president of the Burlington County Bar Association and the Burlington County Bar Foundation.
The trustees also approved a roster of speakers for the Diversity Committee's Distinguished Speaker, Diverse Voices program.
The speakers include Simon Tam, an Asian-American musician, author and activist whose rock band, The Slants, won a trademark suit at the U.S. Supreme Court that centered on expanding First Amendment rights for minorities. He will take part in a program examining Supreme Court cases on Sept. 23 at the New Jersey Law Center.
In addition, the series will feature Jarrett Adams, who was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and served 10 years in prison before being exonerated, and has since attended Loyola University Chicago Law School. He is expected to appear at the Law Center in February. And, Sarah Collins Rudolph, who suffered injuries in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing and whose sister was one of the four little girls killed that day, will be a featured speaker at the annual Diversity Luncheon at the Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlantic City next May.