Practice Areas
• Appellate Practice
• Commercial Litigation
• Land Use

After a distinguished career in public service, Norma Garcia brought her experience to Castano Quigley in 2004. She focuses her practice in land use law, and civil and commercial litigation. Norma’s litigation experience from both an adversarial and judicial perspective affords an advantage in the complex commercial litigation cases she presently handles.

She takes pleasure in representing local municipalities in different areas of land use litigation as it continues the representation of the general public’s safety and welfare. Norma is also trained and experienced in the continuity of litigation through the appellate practice and has participated in and experienced success in numerous appeals. Ms. Garcia is fluent in Spanish.

BAR ADMISSIONS
• New Jersey

RELATED EMPLOYMENT
• Chief Municipal Court Judge, Hillside New Jersey [Union County], 2006-present
• Union Township, New Jersey, Prosecutor, 2003-2004
• Jersey City Housing Authority, Chief Tenancy Program Officer, 2001-2003
• Hudson County, New Jersey, Assistant Prosecutor, 1993-2001
• Clerkship: Hon. Miriam N. Span, Superior Court of New Jersey, Union County, 1992-1993
• New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Summer Intern, 1991
• Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, New York, Legal Intern, Fall, 1990

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Hudson County Bar Association
• New Jersey Hispanic Bar Association

EDUCATION
• J. D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Moot Court Board (1992)
• B.A., John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (1989)
• Fluent in Spanish