Ariel Antonio Rodriguez (November 8, 1947 – November 10, 2017) was a judge for the

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including an acting Justice of the

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(Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court). Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1947 and came to the United States in 1960. A graduate of

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and Rutgers School of Law – Camden. He worked at

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Prosecutor’s Office from 1973 to 1976, after which he formed a law partnership and legal courses part-time at

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. He was named counsel to the

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in 1984.

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nominated Rodríguez to the

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, taking the oath of office on December 5, 1985. Rodríguez sat on the Hudson Vicinage at the

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until September 1, 1993 in the family and civil and criminal divisions. He was re-nominated, with tenure, by Governor

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in 1992. He later sat on the

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. Rodriguez was appointed Chief Justice

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to the Supreme Court in 2012 during a period of controversy and conflict with the New Jersey Senate about the composition about its composition. He sat from October 1, 2012 to June 2014, after which he retired. Rodriguez was a resident of

Ramsey, New Jersey Ramsey is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located northwest of Midtown Manhattan. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 14,473,Mary Catherine Cuff Mary Catherine Cuff (born August 28, 1947) is a former acting justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court) who served between 2012 and 2016. Cuff was born in Newark, New Jerse ...

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Edwin Stern Edwin H. Stern (born June 10, 1941) is a lawyer and judge who served as acting justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court (Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court). Stern grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, gradua ...

Dorothea O'C. Wefing Dorothea O'C. Wefing (born 1943) is a retired New Jersey judge. Wefing is from Teaneck. She graduated from Manhattanville College and received her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. She was appointed a judge on the Superior Court on J ...

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