Background
Goldsamt, Bonnie Blume was born on July 31, 1946 in New York City. Daughter of Frank and Evelyn (Tobias) Blume.
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Bonnie Blume Blume Goldsamt
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Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College, 1967; Master of Arts, New York University, 1971; Juris Doctor, Rutgers University, 1979.
Career
Law secretary to judge Superior Court, New Jersey Chancery Family Part, Newark, 1979-1980;
associate, Cole, Schotz, Bernstein, Meisel and Forman, Rochelle Park, New Jersey, 1980-1982;
assistant county counsel governmental affairs, Essex County, Newark, 1982-1984;
associate, Rose & DeFuccio, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1984-1987;
senior associate, Steven Morey Greenberg, Hackensack, 1987-1989;
private practice, Hackensack, since 1989;
private practice, Verona, since 1992. Speaker Women Bankers Association, Hackensack, 1982, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, 1983. Appointed member family practice committee New Jersey Supreme Court, 1990-1992, court appointed contract arbitrator, Essex County, since 1996, Task Force on Alternative Work Arrangements, State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Committee.
Assistant clinical professor law Seton Hall Law School.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Downtown Brooklyn Planning Board, 1974-1975. Committeeperson Essex County Committee, since 1987. Ward co-chairman Democratic County Committee, Montclair, 1988, 89, 90, 91, ward chair, 1993-1996.
Fundraiser, speaker, chair women'sissues Northern New Jersey Clinton Campaign. Member finance committee Clinton/Gore campaign. Chair women's issues Women's Coalition for Clinton/Gore.
Surrogate speaker Clinton for President campaign. Active Democratic National Convention, Women'sLeadership Forum. Member American Bar Association, American Arbitration Association (arbitrator since 1990), Essex and Bergen County Bar Assns.
(trustee Bergen County 1988-1997, committee member), New Jersey State Bar Association (secretary Executive Committee, vice-chair dispute resolution section 1997-1998, family law Executive Committee, chair child abuse protocol committee, elderlaw committee, state bar family law Executive Committee, Executive Committee, judicial administration programming, pro bono committee, secretary general county 1996-1997), New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (secretary), Women Lawyers in Bergen County (president 1985-1987, trustee Jean Robertson Foundation 1987-1988, director at large 1987-1988, Merit award 1987), New Jersey Association Professional Mediators (secretary board directors 1997-1998), Bergen County Bar Foundation (trustee 1990-1995), National Academy Elder Law Attorneys, Academy of Family Mediators, Society Professionals in Dispute Resolution, Hadassah.
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Married Jay S. Goldsamt, June 25, 1967. Children: Seth, Kathryn, Deborah.
