Rutgers Oral History Archive Interview of Associate Justice Virginia A. Long, Judiciary of New Jersey, December 3, 2018. Accessed August 7, 2024. "Justice Long describes her youth in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the daughter of first-generation parents, an Irish-American policeman and an Italian-American secretary and Democratic Party activist. She traces her Catholic school days from Immaculate Conception School (1947-1955) to Benedictine Academy (1955-1959), both in Elizabeth, to Dunbarton College of Holy Cross in Washington, D.C. (1959-1963).... I was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 1, 1942."