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Jerry Fitzgerald English
908-273-1212
jenglish@lindabury.com
Jerry Fitzgerald English concentrates her practice in the environmental sector, including Brownfield’s transactions, policyholder insurance coverage, regulatory issues, Superfund, ISRA, permits, wetlands, air and water compliance, private party disputes and transactions and defense of regulatory matters. She is a former New Jersey Counsel to the Governor and Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.
She has been a special master for the New Jersey courts to review attorney fees and discovery. She has been an expert witness for private clients in environmental cases.
She has served in the legislative and executive branches of the State as a State Senator, counsel to the Governor and counsel to the New Jersey Senate. She was appointed Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In addition, Jerry serves as a director on various boards, such as the Regional Plan Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and the Federal Bar Association of New Jersey. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Chemical Events Panel studying the destruction of chemicals at various U.S. Army Depots.
As co-chair of the American Bar Association Environmental Litigation Committee on eminent domain, she is a frequent lecturer and is a life fellow of the American Bar Association Foundation. She is an editor of the New Jersey Law Journal. Mrs. English is an adjunct instructor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in a pioneering graduate level environmental problem solving course. She has been appointed to the New Jersey Institute of Technology's College of Science & Liberal Arts Board of Visitors. She serves as Master of the Environmental Inns of Court and Chairs the Election Law Enforcement Commission.
In 2008, she was honored by The Urban Land Institute as Land Use Educator of the Year for her graduate seminar in Environmental Problem Solving at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
In 2007, 2009, and 2010, she was recognized as a "Super Lawyer" in the area of Environmental Law by New Jersey Super Lawyers.
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1965
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1965
Honors/Awards:
Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers*, "Environmental Law" in 2007, 2009, and 2010. For methodology, see http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.
Memberships:
New Jersey State Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Environment, Corporate, Administrative and Land Use)
American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Environmental Litigation; International Law; Natural Resources Law; Environmental Law; Co-Chair, Sub-Committee, Hazardous Waste-CERCLA Litigation, Co-Char, Sub-Committee Eminent Domain)
Federal Bar Association (Trustee)
Justice Stewart G. Pollock Environmental American Inn of Court, President
Education:
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1963
Harvard Law School, 1963
Stanford University, B.A., 1956
*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
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Practice:
Environmental Law
Environmental Litigation
Environmental Insurance Coverage
Administrative Law
Brownfield’s Redevelopment
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