Early Life and Career
Katz was born to Arnold and Angelina Katz and was raised in Paterson, New Jersey with her brother Allan and sister Genise, before moving to Burlington County with her family to Edgewater Park Township. Her father worked as a factory laborer in Paterson before getting a sales job in Burlington County, where he later served as mayor of Edgewater Park Township in 1982 and 1983.
After finishing high school, Katz attended Burlington County College, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins University, and obtained a bachelor's degree in labor studies from Rutgers University. She also received a master's degree from Rutgers. Katz later earned a Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. A year after graduating from Rutgers, she started as an organizer for the CWA and rose through the ranks to become president of Local 1034 in 1999. Local 1034 was CWA's largest local union in the country with more than 16,000 members in both the public and private sector. Katz served as a Commissioner of the Public Employment Relations Commission for five years on an appointment by Governor Donald DiFrancesco.
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