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# Marilyn Clark

New Jersey Superior Court, Passaic Vicinage · Criminal Judge

## Profile

- Court: New Jersey Superior Court, Passaic Vicinage
- State: New Jersey
- Role: Criminal Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-26

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### media access and electronic devices

Scope: statewide

New Jersey statewide Supreme Court guidelines govern media access and electronic devices in courtrooms; recording, photography, broadcasting, and transmission require compliance with the published approval process and courtroom restrictions.

Evidence excerpt: Transmission, broadcasting, recording and/or photographing is prohibited at any proceeding closed by court order, statute, or Rule of Court.

[New Jersey Courts](https://www.njcourts.gov/sites/default/files/notices/2024/07/n240723a.pdf)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.njcourts.gov/public/directories/judges/all)
- [Official roster](https://www.njcourts.gov/public/directories/judges/all)
- [New Jersey Courts official judicial roster](https://www.njcourts.gov/public/directories/judges/all)
- [New Jersey Courts](https://www.njcourts.gov/sites/default/files/notices/2024/07/n240723a.pdf)

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## Biography

### 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



## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [New Jersey Courts](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-c9ef48d54ca091cafd206659) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.njcourts.gov/sites/default/files/notices/2024/07/n240723a.pdf). Collected 2026-07-26.