Hope Blackburn, has decades of experience providing legal representation to dozens of public and private school boards, charter schools and school administrators.
Prior to joining The Busch Law Group, Hope served as General Counsel for the Jersey City Public Schools and the Newark Public Schools, during which she provided advice and counsel to those school boards in all areas of school district operations, and assisted both districts in their transition back to local control. Ms. Blackburn is the former Director of Purchase and Property for the State of New Jersey, a former Assistant Counsel in the Office of Governor’s Counsel, and was Special Assistant for Policy and Planning to the Commissioner of Education. She is also a member and Past President of the Associate Member Program for School Attorneys and a former Co-Chair of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations for Northern New Jersey.