Wayne Hunt Dumont (born August 12, 1941) is an American lawyer and judge who served as

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from 1981 to 1985.

Biography

Dumont was born in 1941, the son of the former Helen S. Williamson and Wayne Dumont, Jr. of

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. His father served more than 30 years in the New Jersey Legislature and was the

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candidate for

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in 1965. He received his

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degree from

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

and his

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from

Seton Hall University School of Law Seton Hall University School of Law is the law school of Seton Hall University, and is located in downtown Newark, New Jersey. Seton Hall Law is the only private law school in New Jersey, and, according to the ''U.S. News & World Report'' rankin ...

. He worked in the

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law firm of Stryker, Tams & Dill, and then was recruited to work for the

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, from 1969 to 1971. He worked on official corruption cases that led to the convictions of Newark Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio and

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political boss

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. He returned to private practice, working as a partner at the Newark law firm of the Robinson, Wayne & Greenberg for ten years. In October 1981, Dumont was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. He was sworn into office in December 1981, serving until August 1985. Dumont was later appointed to be a judge on the

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. He it is Presiding Judge of the Civil Division in the

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/ Sussex Vicinage and sits in Morristown. In June 2008 he was appointed Acting Assignment Judge for the Morris/Sussex Vicinage.

References

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