A federal appeals panel has affirmed dismissal of a suit by former Superior Court Judge Patricia Talbert — New Jersey’s first female Asian-American judge — who claimed race and gender biases were at the heart of her assignment to inferior positions and ultimately led to her descension from the bench.

Talbert, whom Gov. Jon Corzine declined to renominate when her initial term ended in 2007, can’t lay the blame on her overseers in the state judiciary, the Third U.S. Court of Appeals said Wednesday.

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