Michael Noriega at a glance
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Michael Noriega
Associate Justice · Supreme Court of New Jersey
Biography
Professional career
- American attorney and jurist from New Jersey, appointed in 2023 as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, making him the first former public defender and the third Hispanic to serve on the court
- Third Hispanic justice on the court, and the first since Justice Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina
- Noriega began as an assistant deputy public defender in Essex County for five years
- He then practiced immigration and criminal law for six years at his own firm, Noriega & Associates, in Newark, and later as a partner at Bramnick, Rodriguez, Grabas, Arnold, and Mangan in Scotch Plains
Education
- Seton Hall University School of Law in — J.D. (2002)
Additional information
- Michael Noriega was born March 27, 1978 in Weehawken, New Jersey, to Peruvian immigrant parents, and grew up in Union City.
- He also held the role of an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law for eight years and chaired the Immigration Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association
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