Career
Judge Russell is a graduate of Seton Hall University. After service in the United States. Army, he began his career on Wall Street,with Lehman Brothers and Park, Ryan Incorporated. He then attended Seton Hall University School of Law, while working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
After graduating in 1961, he worked in private practice for over thirty years, specializing in real estate law.
Russell is married to the former Anne Gleason, daughter of Mr. & Mistress Thomas A. Gleason, granddaughter of Mr. and Mistress
Timothy O"Leary. They have four children.