The 2024-25 General Assignment has been issued and is available here. As was true in the 2023-24 Term, there are seven Parts. All but Part C, which has five judges, are staffed by four judges. Judges Sumners and Currier continue as Chief Judge and Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration, respectively.

The Presiding Judges of the seven Parts are as follows. Part A- Judge Sabatino; Part B- Judge Currier; Part C- Judge Vernoia; Part D- Judge Gooden Brown; Part E- Judge Gilson; Part F- Chief Judge Sumners; Part H- Judge Mayer. As discussed here, Judges Vernoia, Gooden Brown, and Mayer all ascended to the role of Presiding Judge of their Parts within the past twelve months. Judge Vernoia will reach mandatory retirement age soon, which may be why his Part starts out with five judges.

There are six temporarily assigned judges, an unusually high number. They are spread evenly across all Parts except for Part H. Part A has Judge Jacobs, Judge Torregrossa-O’Connor is on Part B, Judge Vinci sits on Part C, Part D has Judge Vanek, Judge Augostini is on Part E, and Judge Bergman rounds things out on Part F.

The 2023-24 Term began with five temporarily assigned judges, and there were three such judges to start the 2022-23 Term. All eight of those judges have continued on the Appellate Division. Thus, once Judge Vernoia retires, exactly half the Appellate Division judges will be jurists with less than three years of experience on that court. They will need to get acclimated quickly, and everyone is confident that they will do so.