Herbert J SternJudge Stern, who was born in Manhattan, first served as an assistant district attorney there and conducted the grand jury investigation into the murder of the onetime Black Muslim leader Malcolm X. He served as Trial Attorney in the Organized Crime ad Racketeering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1965-1969. He later joined the United States Attorney's office for the District of New Jersey and was involved in the prosecution of such political leaders as Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio of Newark and former Mayor John V. Kenny of Jersey City on corruption charges. He resigned in 1987 and began private practice in New Jersey. In 1979 He was appointed by the State Department as the American judicial power in the occupied American sector of Berlin, Germany. There, he presided over the unique case of United States v. Tiede, an aircraft hijacking prosecution that was the sole case ever tried in the United States Court for Berlin. Stern later authored Judgment in Berlin, a book about his experiences in the Tiede case which was made into a film. Judge Stern received his B.A. from Hobart College in 1958 and went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1961. He then served one year in the United States Army Reserve. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1961 and the New Jersey bar in 1971. Judge Stern has been Co-Director of the Advocacy Institute at the University of Virginia School of Law, from 1980 to the present. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the Seton Hall Law School from 1976-1986, and at the Rutgers School of Law from 1980-1986. He is a member of the New Jersey State and American Bar Associations, and the Association of the Federal Bar of the District of New Jersey where he served as President from 1971-1972. Read More Read Less