Robert Del Tufo

Robert J. Del Tufo (November 18, 1933 – March 2, 2016) was an American lawyer. He was the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1977 to 1980, and later served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1990 to 1993.

Background Del Tufo was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, to Raymond and Mary Del Tufo, who were Italian immigrants. He graduated from the Newark Academy and received a BA degree in 1955 from Princeton University. He received his LLB degree from Yale Law School in 1958. He was sworn in as Attorney General on January 16, 1990, the day of Governor James Florio's inauguration, resigning in 1993 to join the New York City firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

In February 2006, Governor Jon Corzine appointed Del Tufo Chairman the Board of Trustees of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Personal life and death Del Tufo and his first wife, Ann, had four children before divorcing. On March 5, 1994, Del Tufo married Katherine Nouri Hughes, vice president of communications for the Milken Family Foundation.

Del Tufo died from lung cancer in Princeton, New Jersey on March 2, 2016, at the age of 82.