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Joel Pisano

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Joel Pisano

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Prior offices

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey


Education

Personal

Joel Pisano was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He joined the court in 2000 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.[1] Pisano retired from the court on February 16, 2015.[2]

Pisano passed away on February 27, 2021.[3]

Education

A New Jersey native, Pisano graduated from Lafayette College with his bachelor's degree in 1971 and graduated from the Seton Hall University School of Law with his J.D. degree in 1974.[1]

Professional career

Pisano began his legal career as a Assistant Deputy public defender for the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender from 1974 to 1978 before spending the rest of his pre-judicial legal career as a private practice attorney licensed in the State of New Jersey from 1978 to 1991.[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Magistrate, District of New Jersey

Pisano began his Judicial Career as a federal magistrate judge. In 1991, Pisano was appointed to a eight-year term to the bench as a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Pisano was re-appointed to another eight-year term in 1999 before being elevated in the ranks of the Federal Bench in 1999.

District of New Jersey

On the unanimous recommendation of New Jersey U.S. Senators Robert Torricelli and Frank Lautenberg, Pisano was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 22, 1999, to a seat vacated by Maryanne Trump Barry as Barry assumed senior status. Pisano was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 10, 2000, on a voice vote and received commission on February 16, 2000.[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by:
Maryanne Barry
District of New Jersey
2000-2015
Seat #9
Succeeded by:
John Michael Vazquez

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Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Active judges

Chief JudgeRenee Bumb   •  Susan Wigenton  •  Madeline Arleo  •  Claire Cecchi  •  Esther Salas  •  Michael Shipp  •  Karen Williams (New Jersey)  •  Robert Kirsch  •  Brian R. Martinotti  •  Julien Xavier Neals  •  Zahid Quraishi  •  Christine O'Hearn  •  Evelyn Padin  •  Georgette Castner  •  Michael Farbiarz  •  Jamel Semper  •  Edward Kiel

Senior judges

Mary Cooper  •  Anne Thompson  •  Stanley Chesler  •  Katharine Hayden  •  William Martini  •  Peter Sheridan  •  Noel Hillman  •  Robert Kugler  •  Joseph Rodriguez  •  Kevin McNulty  •  

Magistrate judges Tonianne Bongiovanni  •  Mark Falk  •  Ann Donio  •  Douglas Arpert  •  Lois Goodman  •  Michael A. Hammer  •  Cathy L. Waldor  •  James B. Clark, III  •  Leda Dunn Wettre  •  Sharon King  •  Jessica Allen  •  Matthew Skahill  •  André Espinosa  •  
Former Article III judges

Garrett Brown  •  Joel Pisano  •  Freda Wolfson  •  Harold Ackerman  •  Dennis Cavanaugh  •  Dickinson Debevoise  •  Joseph Greenaway  •  Faith Hochberg  •  Jose Linares  •  Stanley Brotman  •  Joseph Irenas  •  Jerome Simandle  •  David Brearley  •  Robert Morris (New Jersey)  •  William Sanford Pennington  •  William Rossell  •  Mahlon Dickerson  •  Philemon Dickerson  •  Richard Stockton Field  •  John Thompson Nixon  •  Andrew Kirkpatrick  •  Leonard Garth  •  Robert Cowen  •  Maryanne Trump Barry  •  Lee Sarokin  •  Edward Green (New Jersey)  •  Joseph Cross  •  William Mershon Lanning  •  John Rellstab  •  Joseph Lamb Bodine  •  John Warren Davis (Third Circuit)  •  Thomas Griffith Haight  •  Charles Francis Lynch  •  William Nelson Runyon  •  William Clark (New Jersey)  •  Guy Laverne Fake  •  James William McCarthy  •  John Boyd Avis  •  Phillip Forman  •  Anthony Augelli  •  George Barlow  •  William Bassler  •  John Bissell  •  Vincent Biunno  •  Mitchell Cohen  •  James Coolahan  •  John Gerry  •  Richard Hartshorne  •  John Kitchen  •  Frederick Lacey  •  Arthur Lane  •  Alfred Lechner  •  John Lifland  •  Thomas Madden  •  Thomas Meaney  •  Henry Meanor  •  Alfred Modarelli  •  Mendon Morrill  •  Stephen Orlofsky  •  Nicholas Politan  •  Robert Shaw (New Jersey)  •  William Francis Smith  •  Herbert Stern  •  Thomas Walker (New Jersey)  •  Lawrence Whipple  •  Alfred Wolin  •  Reynier Wortendyke  •  Clarkson Sherman Fisher  •  John Michael Vazquez  •  William Walls (New Jersey)  •  

Former Chief judges

Garrett Brown  •  Anne Thompson  •  Freda Wolfson  •  Jerome Simandle  •  Guy Laverne Fake  •  Phillip Forman  •  Anthony Augelli  •  George Barlow  •  John Bissell  •  Mitchell Cohen  •  James Coolahan  •  John Gerry  •  Thomas Madden  •  William Francis Smith  •  Lawrence Whipple  •  Clarkson Sherman Fisher  •  

Bill Clinton

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Federal judges nominated by Bill Clinton
1993

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1994

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1995

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1996

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1997

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1998

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1999

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2000

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