Background
ORLOFSKY, STEPHEN was born on June 24, 1944 in Bronx, New York, United States.
ORLOFSKY, STEPHEN was born on June 24, 1944 in Bronx, New York, United States.
City College of the City University of New York (Bachelor of Arts, 1970). Rutgers University (Juris Doctor, with honors, 1974). Law Clerk to Honorary Mitchell H. Cohen, Chief Judge, United States.
District Court for the Doctorate.N.J., 1974-1976.
United States. Magistrate for United States District Court for the Doctorate.N.J., 1976-1980. Member and Secretary, Supreme Court of New Jersey, District IV Ethics Committee Camden and Gloucester Counties, 1989-1990.
Delegate, Annual Judicial Conference of the Third Circuit, 1988-1990. Arbitrator, United States District Court for the Doctorate.N.J., since 1984.
Born in Bronx, New York, Orlofsky earned a bachelor"s degree in 1965 from City College of New York and a law degree from Rutgers School of Law–Camden in 1974. He also served in the United States. Army from 1966 until 1970, spending time in Vietnam. Orlofsky worked as a law clerk for United States. District Judge Mitchell Cohen from 1974 until 1976, when he became a federal magistrate.
He went into private practice in Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey from 1980 until 1995, when he became a United States. district judge.
From 1976 until 1980, Orlofsky served as a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey On June 30, 1995, on the recommendation of United States. Senator. Frank Lautenberg, President Clinton nominated Orlofsky to become a United States. district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
The United States. Senate unanimously confirmed Orlofsky in a voice vote on December 22, 1995. On May 25, 2000, President Clinton nominated Orlofsky to the United States. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to replace Judge Morton Ira Greenberg, who had announced plans to take senior status.
"lieutenant has always been my dream since the day I started clerking for Judge (Mitchell H) Cohen to be a federal judge," Orlofsky told the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article that was published on May 26, 2000.
"And those things (judgeships) don"t come along all the time." With Republicans in control of the Senate in the final year of Clinton"s presidency, however, Orlofsky"s nomination languished, never receiving a hearing before the United States. Senate Judiciary Committee. Orlofsky"s nomination to the Third Circuit was expired at the end of Clinton"s presidency, and President Bush chose not to renominate him. In March 2003, President Bush nominated Michael Chertoff to the Third Circuit to which Orlofsky had been nominated.
Chertoff was confirmed by the United States. Senate later that year.
On February 19, 2003, Orlofsky announced that he was retiring from the bench to return to private practice at his former firm, Blank Rome Limited Liability Partnership. His resignation took effect on August 31, 2003. In an article that appeared in the Cherry Hill Courier-Post on February 20, 2003, Orlofsky told the paper that he wasn"t bitter about being denied a spot on the Third Circuit.
"I"m leaving for new professional challenges," he told the Courier-Post. "I love the interactions of lawyers, of witnesses and jurors.
But I hate the tedium of guns-and-drug cases." He also told the paper that he hadn"t gone looking for a new job.
"The opportunity came up," he said.
Camden County (Trustee, 1988-1991. Chair, Federal Bench-Bar Committee and Federal Courthouse Facilities Committee, 1990-1991), New Jersey State (Vice Chair, Federal Practice and Procedures Committee, since 1990. Member, Antitrust Committee), Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.
Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey (Vice President, since 1990).
Association of Trial Lawyers of America-New Jersey.