Freda L. Wolfson

Freda L. Wolfson
Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Incumbent
Assumed office December 4, 2002
Nominated by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Nicholas H. Politan
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 61–62) Vineland, New Jersey
Spouse(s)	Douglas K. Wolfson[1]
Alma mater	Douglass College, Rutgers University Rutgers School of Law–Newark

Freda Linsenbaum Wolfson (born 1954) is a District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She joined the court in 2002 after being nominated by President George W. Bush.

Early life and education

Born in Vineland, New Jersey,^[2] Wolfson graduated from Douglass College in Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 and later from Rutgers School of Law–Newark with a Juris Doctor degree in 1979. A daughter of Holocaust survivors, she credited the experiences of her parents as leading her to pursue a career in law.^[1]

Legal career

Following law school graduation, Wolfson worked in private practice in New Jersey from 1979 - 1986 at the firms Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan and Clapp & Eisenberg.

Federal Judicial Career

Wolfson began her federal judicial career as a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Wolfson was appointed to an eight-year term in 1986 and was re-appointed again in 1994 before serving another full eight-year term before her nomination as an United States federal judge in 2002.

Wolfson was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey by President George W. Bush on August 1, 2002 to a seat vacated Nicholas H. Politan. Wolfson was confirmed by the Senate on November 14, 2002 on a Senate vote and received her commission on December 4, 2002.

Achievements

Wolfson has been honored as an American Bar Foundation Fellow and has received a New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyer Division's Professional Achievement Award. In 2002 she accepted the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Alumni Association of the Rutgers School of Law, Newark. Recently, Judge Wolfson received the 2008 Women's Initiative & Leaders in Law Platinum Award from the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.

Sources

• Freda L. Wolfson at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

References

1. Hon. Freda L. Wolfson ’79, Commencement Speaker, Rutgers School of Law–Newark. Accessed February 6, 2014. "Freda Wolfson wanted to be part of the United States legal system for as long as she can remember. A first-generation American, daughter of Holocaust survivors, she inherited a respect for the law and our system of justice born of her family’s harrowing years in war-torn Europe."
2. Freda L. Wolfson, New Jersey Law Journal. Accessed February 6, 2014.