Bergen Vicinage to Hold Law Day Celebration

The Bergen Vicinage, in partnership with Bergen County and the Bergen County Bar Association, will celebrate Law Day on Wednesday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of the rotunda of the Bergen County Justice Center, 10 Main St., Hackensack.  

This year’s theme is “Voices of Democracy.”

U.S. District Judge Edward S. Kiel will give the keynote address. The program will begin with a presentation of colors by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Honor Guard Unit. Superior Court Judge Gregg Padavano, chair of the Bergen Vicinage Law Day Committee, will give welcoming remarks and Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton will lead the Pledge of Allegiance. The Bergen County Academies’ chamber choir, under the direction of Louis Spinelli, will sing the national anthem and “God Bless America.”

Assignment Judge Carol Novey Catuogno will administer the oath of citizenship to 21 new citizens from 16 countries of origin and will give remarks. County Executive James J. Tedesco, Board of Commissioners Chairwoman Germaine Ortiz, and Bergen County Bar Association President Laura C. Sutnik also will speak. 

The bar association will acknowledge the winner of the mock trial competition for 2024. Bergen County Clerk John S. Hogan will present the award to the winner of the election calendar poster contest, which is sponsored by Bergen County Surrogate Michael Dressler, Hogan, and Cureton.
  
Established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958, Law Day was designated as “a day of national dedication to the principles of government under law.”