Two Confirmed to NJ Superior Court
The confirmations occurred Thursday afternoon at the State House, during the upper chamber's last scheduled voting session until November.
September 12, 2019 at 05:04 PM
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Benjamin D. Morgan, a partner at Archer & Greiner in Haddonfield and Mark B. Shoemaker, a solo practitioner in Woodbury, were confirmed by the state Senate on Thursday to serve as Superior Court judges.
The confirmations occurred just after 2:30 p.m. at the State House, during the upper chamber's last scheduled voting session until November.
Both are residents of Gloucester County.
Benjamin Morgan, confirmed to a New Jersey Superior Court judgeship on Sept. 12, 2019.
Morgan, a litigation trial attorney, has been with Archer since September 2007. He serves as trial counsel to corporations, small businesses and individuals with business-related disputes. He graduated with a J.D. and M.B.A. from Rutgers School of Law and Rutgers School of Business in 2006. He earned his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
After law school, Morgan clerked for now-retired Supreme Court Justice John Wallace Jr. In 2017 he was a recipient of a New Jersey Law Journal "New Leaders of the Bar" honor. He lives in Mullica Hill.
A native of Gloucester County, Shoemaker has been practicing law for 25 years, handling civil litigation, including personal injury, construction litigation, insurance disputes and environmental law. He also has handled residential and commercial real estate transactions, land use applications, estate planning and probate disputes, guardianships, among other areas, according to his
Mark Shoemaker, a Woodbury, New Jersey, lawyer confirmed to a Superior Court judgeship on Sept. 12, 2019. Photo by Suzette Parmley/ALM
Woodbury law firm's website.
Shoemaker graduated from the University of Vermont as a double major in political science and U.S. history. He received his J.D. from Rutgers University, where he served as an editor of the Rutgers Law Journal. He then clerked for Judge Donald A. Smith, then the presiding civil judge of the Gloucester-Cumberland-Salem vicinage.
Shoemaker is past president of the Gloucester County Bar Association, former chair of the county judicial and prosecutorial appointments committee, and served as a bar trustee for 15 years. He is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and a delegate to the State Bar Association General Council.
Their assignments will be finalized in the coming days by Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner.
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