Edwin H. Stern (born June 10, 1941) is a lawyer and judge who served as acting justice on the
New Jersey Supreme Court (Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court).
Stern grew up in
South Orange, New Jersey
South Orange, officially the Township of South Orange Village, is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village's population was 16,198, reflecting a decline of 766 (4.5%) fro ...
, graduating from
Rutgers University in 1963 and from
Columbia Law School in 1966. He has lived in
West Orange and
Monroe Township.
Stern was a law clerk to a judge on the Appellate Division and from 1967 to 1970 worked as a private practice lawyer. He later joined the
Hudson County prosecutor's office, where he worked as first assistant (1970–73) and then as acting prosecutor (1973–74). After that, he worked as the director of criminal practice in the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) until 1977. He worked as a
deputy attorney general in the Department of Law and Public Safety until 1980, when he returned to the AOC, where worked as the assistant director for legal services.
New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne appointed him to the Superior Court in 1981. Stern became an appellate judge on September 1, 1985, on the
New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, and on September 1, 1998, becoming the Presiding Judge of Appellate Division Part H.
On May 3, 2010, Governor
Chris Christie declined to re-nominate
John E. Wallace, Jr., whose term expired on May 20, 2010. He was the first Justice of the Supreme Court to be denied tenure in more than a half-century since the adoption of the 1947 State Constitution.
["The Politicization of a Respected Court"](_blank)
'' The New York Times'', December 16, 2010; accessed May 19, 2014. Chief Justice
Stuart Rabner appointed Stern to the Supreme Court in September 2010 during a
period of controversy and conflict with the New Jersey Senate about its political composition. He sat on the court until his
mandatory retirement in 2011 after which he took a position at
Gibbons P.C.
See also
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Courts of New Jersey Courts of New Jersey include:
;State courts of New Jersey
* New Jersey Supreme Court (previously the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals)
** New Jersey Superior Court (including the Appellate Division; 15 vicinages)
**New Jersey Tax Court
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Mary Catherine Cuff
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Ariel A. Rodriguez
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Dorothea O'C. Wefing
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List of justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
References
External links
BallotPedia
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1941 births
Living people
Rutgers University alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
New Jersey state court judges
Justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
People from Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
People from South Orange, New Jersey
People from West Orange, New Jersey