Julie M Marino (JSC) (Retired) formed Julie M Marino Mediation & Arbitration, LLC, following her retirement from the bench in February 2024. She joined Sidebar Solutions in March 2024, joining co-founders Judge Miller and Judge O’Neill.

Judge Marino was appointed to the bench  and sworn in as a Somerset County Court Judge on June 27, 2003 and served until February 1, 2024. She served in the Civil Division from June 2003 until September 2004. Thereafter, she served in the Family Division from September 2004 until September 2006. She was transferred to the Criminal Division in September 2006, serving there until September 2007, when she was appointed as the Presiding Judge of Family for Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties. In September of 2011, Judge Marino was appointed as the Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division for Vicinage 13. She was transferred to the Family Division in January 2016, sitting in Hunterdon County. She returned to the Somerset County family bench in January 2020, remaining there until September 2022, when she was again assigned to the criminal bench in Somerset County.

During her legal career, Judge Marino specialized in Family Law, as well as serving as a Municipal Prosecutor in both Raritan Borough and Franklin Township. Judge Marino also served as the Secretary to the Vicinage 13 Ethics Committee for over 10 years, until her appointment to the bench in 2003.

Prior to her admission to the Bar, Judge Marino taught 11th grade English at North Plainfield High School from 1982-1987.

Judge Marino is a graduate of Rutgers College (1980.) She received her Juris Doctorate degree (cum laude) from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1989. During her time in law school, she represented clients under the auspices of the Legal Services Clinic at Seton Hall. She also served as a part time law clerk for several local firms in Somerset County. Following her admission to the Bar in December 1989, Judge Marino worked as an associate attorney for the law firm of Stanley and Powers and in 1995 established a law firm, Marino & Maurice, PC, with her law partner Donald Maurice until 2003 when she was sworn in as a Judge of the Superior Court.

Judge Marino has lectured at numerous judicial trainings, NJSBA seminars, and SCBA seminars on topics such as highly contested divorce cases, custody and parenting time, jurisdiction, litigating a family law matter, motion practice, and settlement techniques.

Judge Julie M. Marino, P.J.S.C. (Ret.)

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