I learned over the weekend that Stephen W. Townsend, the former Clerk of the Supreme Court had died. His obituary states that the date of his death was April 22. A graduate of Dumont High School, Bucknell University, and, in 1970, the Dickinson College School of Law, Stephen Townsend spent his entire professional life in the service of the New Jersey judiciary. Following a clerkship after law school, he was a senior attorney in the legal research section of the Administrative Office of the Courts. In 1973, he became Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a position that he held...