Education
Rutgers University.
Rutgers University.
Quigley served as the Majority Conference Leader starting with the 2006-2008 legislative session. She was the Assembly"s Deputy Speaker from 2004–2006 and was the Minority Parliamentarian from 1999-2001. She writes for the Jersey Journal.
Quigley served in the Assembly on the State Government Committee (as Chair), the Budget Committee, the Health and Senior Services Committee and the Legislative Services Commission.
Quigley sponsored legislation mandating registration of sex offenders and requiring filing of deoxyribonucleic acid types with state and national databases, and also sponsored legislation setting a statute of limitations on parking tickets. She was previously employed as public information officer for the Hudson County Welfare Board and as executive director of a retired senior volunteer program of the Hudson County United Way.
She received an Associate of Arts from Hudson County Community College in Public Policy, a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 from Saint Peter"s College, New Jersey in Urban Studies/Sociology and was awarded an Master of Public Administration in 1979 from Rutgers University in Public Administration. In the wake of redistricting following the results of the 2010 United States Census, the portion of Jersey City in which Quigley resides was removed from the 32nd District, and based on that change she decided in April 2011 not to seek re-election to a seventh term of office in the Assembly in November and was replaced on the general election ballot by Angelica M. Jimenez, a vice president of the board of education in West New New York
They issued a joint press release, calling on "..New Jersey retailers to ban the sale of her book throughout the state."
A few days after Quigley and Stender"s press release was issued, it was edited on the New Jersey Assembly Democratic Majority website.
The word "ban" was replaced with the word "boycott" in two instances (in the title and in the third paragraph). The original text of the press release can viewed on several websites. Quigley and Stender issued the press release in response to Coulter"s criticism of the Jersey Girls, four widows of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from New Jersey who have criticized United States. policies in the events leading up to September 11.
Due to this press release Stender and Quigley were both featured on Larry King Live on Cable News Network. Quigley and Stender"s call to ban Coulter"s book has been denounced as censorship by some.
On June 8, 2006, Quigley and Assemblywoman Linda Stender proposed banning the sale of Ann Coulter"s book Godless: The Church of Liberalism in New Jersey.
However, others have defended the two by saying that they were merely advocating a boycott, which would allow the book to continue being published uncensored.