View Comments Gov. Phil Murphy signed the "Laura Wooton's Law" legislation Friday, which mandates all New Jersey middle schools teach civics classes starting September 2022. “As a very young child, I used to see my mother leave the house in the middle of the night. When she came back, it was night again," said Yvonne Hill about her late mother, Laura Wooton, the state's and nation's longest-serving poll worker. Murphy named the law after Hill's mother. "Now of course, I know she was going to the polls,” Hill said of Wooton, a volunteer poll worker in Mercer County for 79 consecutive years. She began to volunteer a few years after she finished high school during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency and did so until her death in 2019 at age 98.