School of Law - Newark
The Rutgers School of Law—Newark is pleased to present the Honorable Freda L. Wolfson, United States district judge of the district of New Jersey, as this year’s commencement speaker.
Judge Wolfson’s tenure on the bench spans 23 years. For 16 years she served as a United States magistrate judge in Trenton and has been a United States district judge of the district of New Jersey since 2002. Before donning a judicial robe, Judge Wolfson began her legal career as a litigator, handling commercial and employment litigation and casino licensing applications at Lowenstein Sandler for two years and Clapp & Eisenberg for five years.
The author of numerous opinions and articles on a vast array of subjects, Judge Wolfson shares her expertise with several professional committees. She currently serves as chair of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey Committee on Personnel and Equal Employment Opportunity as well as chair of the Committee on Jury Utilization and Management. She frequently participates in professional seminars as a speaker or panelist for such organizations as the Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey, the American Trial Lawyers Association-New Jersey Educational Foundation, the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, and various county bar associations.
Judge Wolfson’s professional achievements are many. She has been honored as an American Bar Foundation Fellow and has received a
New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyer Division's Professional Achievement Award. In 2002 she accepted the Outstanding Alumnus
Award from the Alumni Association of the Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Recently, Judge Wolfson received the 2008 Women's Initiative & Leaders in Law Platinum Award from the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Judge Wolfson was an Eagleton Institute of Politics Undergraduate Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Rutgers
University, Douglass College, in New Brunswick. She graduated in 1976 magna cum laude. In 1979, she graduated cum laude from Rutgers School of Law-Newark,
where she worked both as a teaching assistant and research assistant while serving as an editor of the Rutgers Law Review.
Judge Wolfson is married to Douglas K. Wolfson, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge and former New Jersey assistant attorney general, director of the Division of Law in the Department of Law and Public Safety. The Wolfsons have two sons, Brian and Matthew.
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