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The Union County Courthouse is the county courthouse for Union County, New Jersey located in the county seat of Elizabeth. [7] The 17 story, 238 ft (73 m) tall Neoclassical building, completed in 1931, is the tallest in the city. [1] [8] It is a contributing property to the Mid-Town Historic District. [6]
There are 21 counties in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Superior Court subsumed and replaced the New Jersey County Courts, which were abolished in 1978. [1] The Superior Court has 15 vicinages (jurisdictional districts or circuits), some encompassing two or three counties, each of which has its own courthouse or courthouses.
Elizabeth is a hub of several major roadways including the New Jersey Turnpike / Interstate 95, Interstate 278 (including the Goethals Bridge, which carries Interstate 278 over the Arthur Kill between Elizabeth and Howland Hook, Staten Island), U.S. Route 1/9, Route 27, Route 28, and Route 439.
The Henderson County Judicial Center opened for business Jan. 28, 2002, and Elizabeth “Beth” Vaughn was appointed to the family court judgeship a little more than three months later.
First Hispanic American woman (U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey): Esther Salas (1981) in 2006 [20] [21] First South Asian American female and first Muslim female (U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey): Rukhsanah L. Singh in 2022 [30]
The Judiciary of New Jersey comprises the New Jersey Supreme Court as the state supreme court and many lower courts.. New Jersey's judiciary is unusual in that it still separates cases at law from those in equity, like its neighbor Delaware but unlike most other U.S. states; however, unlike Delaware, the courts of law and equity are formally "divisions" of a single unified lower court of ...