Since she was a teenager, state Superior Court Judge Renee Jones Weeks has believed the path to a better America would be cleared through the courtroom.

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Now that the 60-year-old judge is retiring on July 18, she can look back on a 20-year career where she has affected society from nearly every possible position on the bench.

Weeks has presided over civil and criminal cases. As a family court judge, she has settled intimate complexities surrounding cases involving the care of children and other domestic issues.

As the state’s first African-American woman to preside in New Jersey’s general equity and probate court – as well as Essex County’s first African-American appointed to that court – she has deciphered the wishes of the deceased, protected the interests of the incapacitated, and worked through the mounting number of foreclosures in Essex County.

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