quijano graduated from rutgers university with a b.s. in management and earned her juris doctor from rutgers school of law–newark in 1991. she served clerkships at new jersey superior court in newark, and in trenton at both the office of the governor's counsel and the new jersey department of the public advocate in trenton. she has bar admissions in both new jersey and pennsylvania. she is currently a municipal prosecutor for the city of elizabeth. she has worked as a compliance manager for prudential/ aetna u.s. healthcare and as an attorney in civil practice. she served as chief of staff to state senator raymond lesniak from 1992–1994, assistant counsel to union county, clerk to the union county board of chosen freeholders and as the assistant counsel to governors jim mcgreevey, richard codey and jon corzine. quijano has served on the united way hispanic advisory council of union county, the governor's working group for hispanic affairs, a legal services committee in elizabeth, and as a commissioner for new jersey's congressional redistricting efforts. she is the recipient of the excellence in state government leadership and the women of excellence in government awards and mentors young adults to consider law and graduate school in her free time.