Senator Menendez honors 6 outstanding NJ women with the “Evangelina Menendez Trailblazer Award” at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Hackensack/Teaneck Campus for their public service. Joan Verplanck, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce President; Judy Hyde, New Jersey PTA President; Sheila Oliver Majority Leader, New Jersey State Assembly; Noemi Velazquez, Founder and President of LUPE (Latinas United for Political Empowerment); Mary Jo Codey, former First Lady of New Jersey and Post Partum Depression advocate; and Maryann Murphy, 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year New Jersey were the six honorees.