Barry T. Albin

Barry T. Albin was a justice nominated to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court on July 10, 2002.

Biography

Barry Albin was born on July 7, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a graduate from Rutgers College in 1973 and Cornell Law School in 1976. After graduation, he started a career as a Deputy Attorney General in the Appellate Section of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. After this career, he became Assistant Prosecutor in the Passaic and Middlesex counties, which he held from 1978 to 1982. He was named a partner with the Wilentz firm in 1986.

Albin served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Criminal Practice Committee from 1987 until 1992, and gained the honor of being selected by peers to have his name included in the "Best Lawyers in America" (2000-2001). He became the President of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a position he held in the year of 1999.

Albin was nominated by Governor James E. McGreevey on July 10, 2002 as a justice in the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was confirmed on September 12 of the same year and was officially sworn in on September 18, 2002.

Barry Albin and his wife, Inna Albin, have two sons, Gerald and Daniel.

External links

* [http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/supreme/jalbin.htm Justice Barry T. Albin]