The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a former federal prosecutor and partner at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads in Cherry Hill who is poised to become the first African American woman and only third Black justice to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court, has been scheduled for Aug. 24.

The hearing date was announced in a joint statement on Monday by Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari, D-Union, in a release.