*Under the state judicial ethics rules, sitting judges are precluded from accepting awards.

Hon. Greta Gooden Brown joined the Criminal Justice Division of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office in 1983. She served there, in various supervisory capacities, for the next 10 years. From 1994 to 2001, she headed the Prosecutors and Police Bureau. In 1999, she became the first African-American assistant attorney general in the history of the division.