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New judge on New Jersey Superior Court

Salem, New Jersey: David E. Krell, a municipal judge since February of 1990, was sworn in to the New Jersey Superior Court on January 21, 2010. He will serve in Vicinage 15 on the Criminal Division in Cumberland County.[1]

  1. ↑ Salem County News, "Pittsgrove's David Krell sworn in as New Jersey Superior Court judge", January 21, 2010

Fifteen judges nominated by Gov. Corzine

New Jersey: Governor Jon Corzine made 15 last minute judicial nominations before he was replaced by Gov.-elect Chris Christie. To the Superior Court, he nominated: Hany Mawla and Alberto Rivas for Middlesex County; Robert Kirsch for Union County; and Esther Suarez for Passaic County. He nominated the following Administrative Law Judges: Michael Antoniewicz, Robert Bingham, Leland McGee, John Spence Jr., Kimberly Moss, Tahesha Way, and Tiffany Williams. He also nominated four Workers' Compensation Judges: George Gangloff Jr., E. Elaine Voyles, Vicki Citrino and Allen Papp.[1]

  1. ↑ The Star-Ledger, "Corzine names judges, prosecutor in compromise with Christie", January 7, 2010

Two judges confirmed to Superior Court

New Jersey: Esther Suarez and Alberto Rivas were confirmed by the Senate to the New Jersey Superior Courts. Gov. Jon Corzine had appointed Suarez, a former corporation counsel and director of the Bergen County Law Department Counsel, to New Jersey Vicinage 11 in Passaic County. Rivas, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the District of New Jersey, was appointed to New Jersey Vicinage 8 in Middlesex County.[1]

  1. ↑ NJ.com: Hoboken Now, "Senate confirms Corzine's nominations of former Hoboken corporation counsel to Superior Court", January 19, 2010

Citrino nominated workers' compensation judge

Clifton, New Jersey: Gov. Jon Corzine, in an agreement with incoming Gov. Chris Christie, nominated Vicki Citrino as a workers' compensation judge. Her nomination was approved by the New Jersey Senate on January 11, 2010.[1]

  1. ↑ North Jersey.com, "Governor fills post with City residents", January 15, 2010

Somerset County gains new Family Division judge

New Jersey: Superior Court Judge Hany Mawla was assigned to the Family Division of New Jersey Vicinage 13 in Somerset County on January 12, 2010. He was first nominated to this court by Gov. Corzine on January 6, 2010.[1]

  1. ↑ My Central Jersey.com, "Newly confirmed judge assigned to Family Court in Somerset County", January 13, 2010

Three superior court appointments approved in New Jersey

New Jersey: Governor Jon Corzine's 3 nominations for the Morris County's Superior Court were approved by the state senate on Monday, January 13. Out of the three judges, two, Philip Maenza and Mary Gibbons Whipple are Democrats, and James DeMarzo is a Republican. Whipple will preside in the family court, Maenza in the criminal court, and DeMarzo in the family court. The judges are expected to start next week.[1]

  1. ↑ Daily Record Three Morris attorneys will become Superior Court judges, January 13, 2010



Barry Albin receives tenure on the NJ Supreme Court

New Jersey: Supreme Court justice Barry Albin was confirmed by the Senate for lifetime tenure on the New Jersey Supreme Court in June of 2009.

Albin was appointed to the court in 2002 by then-Governor James McGreevey. In 2009 Governor Jon Conzine re-nominated him for tenure, and after meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a four hour hearing before the committee, he was confirmed by the Senate with a 27 - 11 vote. [1]

Albin's supporters praised him as a dedicated and compassionate public servant, while his detractors criticized him for being an "activist judge". Albin said labels like that "miss the mark." "I am not going to characterize any case as activist or nonactivist," he said. [2]

  1. ↑ PolitickerNJ "Senate reconfirms Albin, 27 to 11" June 26, 2009
  2. ↑ NJ.com "N.J. Senate Judicary Committee approves Supreme Court Justice Albin for lifetime tenure" June 22, 2009

Senate judiciary committee making progress on backlog of vacancies

New Jersey: Sen. Paul Sarlo, chairman of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee, congratulated the committee on narrowing the number of vacancies on the New Jersey Superior Court from 38 to 17 since the beginning of the year. The 17 remaining vacancies on the Superior Court bench are the least since the Whitman administration.

"Since January, the Senate Judiciary Committee has confirmed 32 new Superior Court judges and 16 reappointments to the Superior Court bench; three workers’ compensation judges; five workers’ compensation re-appointments; five new administrative law judges, and five administrative law judge reappointments."

The committee also oversaw the renomination of Supreme Court justice Barry Albin to a lifetime tenure. [1]

  1. ↑ News Release "Sarlo commends judiciary committee for filling backlog of vacancies" July 2, 2009

Firm wins fight for real estate data
April 28, 2009: "The state's highest court told Bergen County yesterday to release 8 million pages of real estate documents -- including mortgage information -- to fulfill a request filed under the state's public records law, but that Social Security numbers included in them must be kept private.

The justices also said the company requesting the information should pay the $460,000 it will cost the county to remove the Social Security numbers from records spanning more than two decades." Read the full article here.

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