Chief Justice Rabner has issued the General Assignment Order for 2018-19.  It is available here.  The Appellate Division lineup again features Judge Messano as Presiding Judge for Administration and Judge Sabatino as Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration.  Those two judges, as well as Judges Simonelli, Koblitz, Alvarez, Fisher, Yannotti, and Fuentes, will serve as Presiding Judges for the eight Parts of the Appellate Division.  Judge Reisner, who had been a Presiding Judge of a Part previously, is now shown as a member of Judge Alvarez’s Part D. The three judges newly appointed to...

Chief Justice Rabner has announced the elevation of three judges to the Appellate Division.  Two of them, Judges Firko and Natali, have been serving on temporary assignment to the Appellate Division since April 16, 2018, as discussed here.  The third judge, Judge Stephanie Ann Mitterhoff, has been sitting in the Civil Division, Essex County, since she was appointed to the bench by Governor Christie in 2014.  Judge Mitterhoff is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Rutgers-Newark School of Law.  Before taking the bench, she was in private practice at Bramnick, Rodriguez,...

Mark Neary, who has served as Clerk of the Supreme Court for over nine years, will retire in November of this year.  A search is on for his replacement. A graduate of Princeton University and Rutgers-Newark School of Law (Class of 1985), Mark worked in private practice until he joined the staff of the Casino Control Commission, where he served as Assistant Counsel.  He moved to the Supreme Court Clerk’s Office in 1991, where was a staff attorney for eighteen years.  He was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court effective May 1, 2009. Mark had big shoes to fill.  His predecessor, Stephen...