Marilyn Clark

Professional career

• In 2026, she was honored during the Passaic Vicinage’s Women’s History Month celebration for her pioneering role as the first female judge in the vicinage, her dedication to justice, equality, and leadership, and her professional integrity
• Although she retired from active service in 2020, Judge Clark remains on judicial recall in the Criminal Division of Passaic County
• Before joining the judiciary, Clark served as an Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor from 1977 to 1989.
• Criminal Judge in the Passaic Vicinage (Vicinage 11) of the New Jersey Superior Court, appointed by gubernatorial selection
• The current longest‐sitting Superior Court judge in New Jersey, with 37 years on the bench

Education

Additional information

• 15, 2028) under N.J.S.A.
• Appointed in 1989 and became tenured in 1996.
• Immediately assigned to the Passaic Vicinage, serving in both family and criminal divisions
• 43:6A‐13, with her consent
• For the last 24 years of her tenure, she was the criminal presiding judge
• Marilyn C. Clark is a distinguished criminal judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey’s Passaic Vicinage, the first woman to serve on that vicinage’s bench, and currently continues on judicial recall after retirement