Chief Justice Rabner announced today that Judge Greta Gooden Brown is being temporarily assigned to the Appellate Division. That assignment is effective on August 1, 2016.
A graduate of Douglass College and Rutgers-Newark School of Law, Judge Brown was nominated to the bench by Governor Corzine and took her seat in Passaic County in 2009. She began her service in the Criminal Division and later moved to the Family Part. She has been Presiding Judge, Family, since July 27, 2014. Before her elevation to the bench, Judge Brown served as the State’s Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. She was also the first African-American to hold the position of Assistant Attorney General in the Division of Criminal Justice.
A hearty welcome to Judge Brown!