Mrs. Dewan Sharmin Arefin, a Bangladesh born American sworn in as deputy Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, in March 2005. Before joining this position, Sharmin Arefin worked as an associate at Radom and Wetter, one of the most reputed law firms in New Jersey and prior to that she served the Superior Court of New Jersey as a Judicial Clerk to Judge Ann R. Bartlett. As a law student, Sharmin was a Judicial Intern to Judge Samuel A. Alito at U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She also worked earlier for the General Assembly Majority, Trenton, NJ, as Legal Intern to the Chief Counsel and Deputy Chief Counsel and as legislative Intern to the same body for about two years.
Born in Bangladesh in 1977, educated mostly in the US since 1980 she did her Juris Doctorate (JD) from Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ in 2002. Under the auspices of “Study Abroad Program”, she studied International Criminal Law, International Trade and Islamic jurisprudence at American University of Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of 2000.
Sharmin had her B.A. in Political Science and Sociology with Psychology as a minor from Rutgers University-Douglass College, NJ, in 1999. As a student in the Sociology Department Honors Program, she received the Best Sociology Department Honors Thesis Award.
In the summer of 1996, she studied Sociology of Culture and Gender and Shakespeare at Harvard University. She also worked for the internationally renowned Eagleton Institute of Government and Politics at Rutgers University. She is a member of the American Bar Association, New Jersey Bar Association and New York Bar Association. She lives in the township of Keasbey, NJ, with her husband, Saiful Alam Khan, who is a business executive at Touchstone health Care System, a Wall Street based company.
