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unusual facts about New Jersey Attorney General


Kevin O'Dowd

Kevin O'Dowd is a current nominee for the position of Attorney General of the State of New Jersey.


Dickinson R. Debevoise

After 32 years on the Court, Judge Debevoise has over 60 former law clerks, including Stuart Rabner, current Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, former New Jersey Attorney General, and former counsel to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and Peter C. Harvey, who was the first African American to serve as New Jersey Attorney General (2003–2006).

Frank J. Dodd

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, Senate President Joseph P. Merlino, Attorney General John J. Degnan, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

Joseph P. Merlino

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, Attorney General John J. Degnan, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

Joseph Rakowski

During his four month term of office, Rakowski worked with New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo to address a problem where trucks full of garbage were being driven from New York City to Jersey City, New Jersey and their full trailers abandoned.

Michael Halfacre

A former congressional candidate and mayor of the Borough of Fair Haven, New Jersey, Halfacre is currently the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control within the Office of the Attorney General in the state's Department of Law and Public Safety.

Shavar Jeffries

In 2008-2010, he took a leave of absence to serve as Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram and led several departments, including the Juvenile Justice Commission and the Civil Rights Division.

Warren W. Wilentz

He was the son of New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz, who prosecuted Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, and the brother of New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Wilentz.


see also

Joseph Vas

On March 11, 2009, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced that a grand jury had indicted Vas on eleven counts, including conspiracy, official misconduct, bid-rigging and tampering with records.

Katzenbach

Edward L. Katzenbach (1878–1934), New Jersey Attorney General, brother of Frank S. Katzenbach, father of Nicholas Katzenbach