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Lori Grifa is an attorney at Woff and Samson who served as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs in 2010 to 2012 during the governorship of Chris Christie.

Grifa graduated Toms River High School East graduating in 1981. She earned her BA cum laude, from Rutgers University, where she was a Henry Rutgers Thesis Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. Grifa graduated the Boston College School of Law, and served as law clerk to Judge Elbert Tuttle of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

She was a special assistant district attorney in the Homicide Investigation Unit of the New York County District Attorney's Office for two years and was a senior assistant district attorney in the Office of the District Attorney of Kings County, in Brooklyn, New York. from 1989-1997, where she specialized in homicide and gang-related prosecutions.

From 2002-2003, Grifa served as chief of staff to New Jersey Attorney General David Samson. In that capacity, she was responsible for managing the New Jersey Department of Law & Public Safety.

Grifa was appointed by the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court to the Committee for Women and the Courts and the State Domestic Violence Working Group as District V-A Attorney Ethics Committee, on which served a four year term from 2008-2012.

Grifa was Commissioner of served in Governor Chris Christie’s Cabinet as the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs from 2010 until her resignation on January 2, 2012. During her tenure, she also chaired the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, the New Jersey Redevelopment Agency, the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing and the New Jersey Housing Mortgage Finance Agency.