Edwin H. Stern (born June 10, 1941) is a lawyer and judge who served as acting justice on the

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(Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court). Stern grew up in

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, graduating from

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in 1963 and from

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in 1966. He has lived in West Orange and Monroe Township. Stern was a law clerk to a judge on the Appellate Division and from 1967 to 1970 worked as a private practice lawyer. He later joined the

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prosecutor's office, where he worked as first assistant (1970–73) and then as acting prosecutor (1973–74). After that, he worked as the director of criminal practice in the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) until 1977. He worked as a deputy attorney general in the Department of Law and Public Safety until 1980, when he returned to the AOC, where worked as the assistant director for legal services.

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appointed him to the Superior Court in 1981. Stern became an appellate judge on September 1, 1985, on the

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, and on September 1, 1998, becoming the Presiding Judge of Appellate Division Part H. On May 3, 2010, Governor

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declined to re-nominate John E. Wallace, Jr., whose term expired on May 20, 2010. He was the first Justice of the Supreme Court to be denied tenure in more than a half-century since the adoption of the 1947 State Constitution."The Politicization of a Respected Court"
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'', December 16, 2010; accessed May 19, 2014. Chief Justice

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appointed Stern to the Supreme Court in September 2010 during a period of controversy and conflict with the New Jersey Senate about its political composition. He sat on the court until his

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in 2011 after which he took a position at Gibbons P.C.

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