Order – Further Amending the List of Municipal Court Judges Authorized to Handle Civil Commitment Matters

SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY 

It is ORDERED that the August 29, 2018 omnibus order designating those Municipal Court judges authorized to handle adult and minor involuntary commitment initial hearings, review hearings, and conversion hearings, with the judges listed by vicinage but having statewide jurisdiction, which order has been amended by orders dated February 19, 2019; October 15, 2019; February 20, 2020; March 4, 2020; November 30, 2020; December 30, 2020; July 16, 2021; January 3, 2022; January 19, 2022; March 8, 2022; May 31, 2022; September 16, 2022; January 17, 2023, and January 20, 2023 is further amended effective immediately, as follows: 

Vicinage 6 (Hudson) 
delete Hon. Kenneth J. Lindenfelser 
delete Hon. Thomas D. Mc Keon 

Vicinage 8 (Middlesex) 
add Hon. James R. Pastor 

Vicinage 10 (Morris/Sussex) 
delete Hon. James G. Devine 
add Hon. Louis P. Mellinger 

Vicinage 11 {Passaic) 
add Hon. Lo.uis P. Mellinger 

Vicinage 13 {Somerset/Hunterdon/Warren)
delete Hon. Mark S. Adler 
delete Hon. William G. Mennen IV 
delete Hon. Gerard J. Shamey