Bergen Vicinage to Hold Law Day Celebration

The Bergen Vicinage, in partnership with Bergen County and the Bergen County Bar Association, will celebrate Law Day on Thursday, May 1 at 3 p.m. in the conference room of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Two Bergen Plaza, Hackensack. 

This year’s theme is “The Constitution’s Promise: Out of Many, One.”

The program will begin with a presentation of colors by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Honor Guard Unit. Superior Court Judge Gregg A. Padavano, chair of the Bergen Vicinage Law Day Committee, will give welcoming remarks, and Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton will lead the Pledge of Allegiance. The Bergen County Academies’ chamber choir, under the direction of Louis Spinelli, will sing the national anthem and “God Bless America.”

Assignment Judge Carol Novey Catuogno will speak before former Bergen County Executive William “Pat” Schuber gives the keynote address. County Administrator Thomas Duch, Board of County Commissioners Chairwoman Mary J. Amoroso, and Bergen County Bar Association President Cynthia A. Petrowsky also will speak. 

The bar association will acknowledge the winner of the county’s mock trial competition for 2025, with presentations by coordinators Nicole Gerritsen McDonough and John W. McDermott recognizing Park Ridge High School and presenting the Daniel Rigby Most Valuable Player Award.

Bergen County Clerk John S. Hogan will present the award to the winners of the election calendar poster contest, which is sponsored by Bergen County Surrogate Michael Dressler, Hogan, and Cureton. 

Established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958, Law Day was designated as “a day of national dedication to the principles of government under law.”