A recently passed bill permits Judge Glenn Grant, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 this month, to defer his judicial pension while continuing to serve in the position of administrative director of the courts. As the chief justice said in a statement on Dec. 21, Judge Grant "has been a remarkable leader of the Judiciary for more than a decade. Among many other areas of achievement, his effectiveness has been especially noteworthy of late in helping guide the courts through the ongoing pandemic and helping respond in a meaningful way to racial justice issues that affect the justice system."

Judge Grant became a Superior Court judge in 1998, and was elevated to the Appellate Division in 2008. He was temporarily assigned as acting administrative director of the courts so that he could serve in that position with the salary of an Appellate Division judge. He could only serve as acting administrative director because of the prohibition of serving in two constitutional offices at the same time. But Judge Grant has now reached the mandatory retirement age for a Superior Court judge, and if recalled to serve as a judge and acting administrative director, he could receive only the per diem rate of a recall judge as well as his judicial pension, which would not meet the salary of an Appellate Division judge or administrative director.