Lisa Mirrales Walsh Archives - New Jersey Globe

Patterson turns 67, and Sherrill has three years to pick a Supreme Court Justice

April 15, 2026 5:48 amApril 15, 2026 2:15 pm

New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Patterson turns 67 today — a milestone that quietly starts the clock for Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who now has three years to choose her successor before Patterson hits the state’s mandatory retirement age...

New Hudson assignment judge may have obfuscated truth while under oath

November 10, 2024 9:33 pmNovember 11, 2024 10:50 am

David Katz, the new Hudson County Assignment Judge, might have intentionally misled a Supreme Court ethics hearing officer about his incessant pursuit of an assignment judge post. During sworn testimony in an attorney ethics complaint in June of 2024 obtained...

Murphy to nominate John Hoffman to N.J. Supreme Court

June 8, 2024 11:05 amJune 10, 2024 7:14 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce on Monday that he will nominate John Jay Hoffman, a former acting attorney general of New Jersey and the general counsel of Rutgers University for the last eight years, to serve as an...

Possible N.J. Supreme Court nominee temporarily elevated to appellate court

February 9, 2022 2:58 pm

Judge Maritza Berdote Byrne, who is under consideration for a seat on the New Jersey Supreme Court, has been temporarily elevated to the appellate court, a move that increases minority representation at the highest levels of the state judiciary and...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

January 17, 2022 12:02 amFebruary 9, 2022 4:42 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...

Murphy to renominate Wainer Apter to Supreme Court

January 11, 2022 9:47 amJanuary 11, 2022 1:13 pm

In a widely anticipated move, Gov. Phil Murphy will formally renominate Rachel Wainer Apter to serve as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court at some point on Tuesday, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Murphy originally nominated...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

November 15, 2021 12:01 amNovember 15, 2021 10:34 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...