By Jamie Kyte Sapoch
Centurion Ministries is pleased to announce that Virginia Long has become a Member of its Board of Directors.
The goal of Centurion Ministries is to vindicate and free from prison those individuals in the United States and Canada who are factually innocent of the crimes for which they have been unjustly convicted and imprisoned for life or death. Founded in 1983, Centurion Ministries has freed 49 individuals who have collectively served 956 years, and is currently working behalf of 23 falsely convicted people across the nation serving life sentences.
Justice Long was appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1999 and was confirmed by the Senate for a second term and granted tenure in 2006. She chaired and served as a member of numerous Supreme Court committees, including Extra-judicial Activities and Judicial Performance. Ms. Long retired from the bench on March 1, 2012, when she reached the age of mandatory retirement, and now serves as Counsel to Fox Rothschild in Princeton, New Jersey.
In addition to Ms. Long’s roles as New Jersey Supreme Court Justice, Deputy Attorney General in New Jersey, Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, and Commissioner of the former New Jersey Department of Banking, she spent many years as judge in other New Jersey courts.

