Georgette Castner Archives - New Jersey Globe

Developer admits bribing Newark officials, selling cards bearing DHS insignia

September 1, 2026 4:10 pm

A New York real estate developer admitted Tuesday that he helped funnel bribes to Newark employees overseeing his properties and participated in a separate scheme to sell identification cards bearing the insignia of the Department of Homeland Security. Menashe Davidovitz,...

A closer look at all 10 of Biden’s federal judicial nominees in N.J. (so far)

September 8, 2023 5:41 pmSeptember 11, 2023 8:11 am

With Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamel Semper’s nomination this week to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, President Joe Biden has now put forward nine federal judicial nominees from New Jersey since taking office in 2021. A...

Senate confirms Castner as federal judge

March 31, 2022 1:59 pmMarch 31, 2022 4:26 pm

The United States Senate today confirmed Georgette Castner as a U.S. District Court Judge for New Jersey, making the 42-year-old former chief of staff to a state assemblyman the youngest woman to serve as a federal judge in the 232-year...

Padin nominated for federal judgeship

November 3, 2021 11:42 am

President Joe Biden today nominated Evelyn Padin, the former president of the New jersey State Bar Association, to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge in New Jersey. If Padin and Georgette Castner, who was also nominated today by Biden,...

Biden to nominate Castner to federal judgeship

November 3, 2021 9:14 am

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Georgette Fries Castner, a partner at a top mid-Atlantic law firm with a stellar reputation in state legal circles, to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge in New Jersey, the New Jersey...