Herbert Jay Stern

Personal

Birthday: 
1936
Birthplace: 
New York, NY
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

U.S. Army Reserve private, 1961-1962
Assistant district attorney, New York County, New York, 1962-1965
Trial attorney, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1969
Chief assistant U.S. attorney, District of New Jersey, 1969-1971
U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1971-1974
Judge, U.S. Court for Berlin, 1979
Private practice, Roseland, New Jersey, 1987-

Education

Name of School: 
Hobart College
Degree: 
B.A.
Degree Year: 
1958
Name of School - Second: 

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1961

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Court Name: 

New Jersey District Court

President Nominating: 
Richard M. Nixon
Party Affiliation of President: 
Republican
Commission Date: 
12/28/1973
Termination Date: 
1/4/1987
Termination Reason: 
Resignation