Morris/Sussex Vicinage to Celebrate Law Day 2024

The Morris/Sussex Vicinage will hold its Law Day celebrations on Wednesday, May 1.

The programs will focus on this year’s national theme, “Voices of Democracy.” 

The Morris celebration will be held at 4 p.m. in the historic courtroom of the Morris County Courthouse, Court and Washington streets, Morristown.

Retired Appellate Division Judge Mary Gibbons Whipple will give the keynote address. 

Family Presiding Judge James DeMarzo and Morris County Bar Association President-Elect Christopher F. Schellhorn also will speak. Morris County Bar Foundation President Lawrence S. Cutalo will honor the mock trial team from West Morris Mendham High School, the winning school representing Morris County in the Vincent J. Apruzzese High School Mock Trial Competition. 

The event is sponsored by the Morris/Sussex Vicinage, the Morris County Bar Association, the Morris County Bar Foundation, in partnership with the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Morris/Sussex Vicinage Advisory Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement. 

The event also will be livestreamed at https://www.njcourts.gov/public/channels under the Morris/Sussex tab.

The Sussex program will be held at 7 p.m. at the Historic Sussex County Courthouse, High and Spring streets, Newton. 

Attorney Mark Hontz will serve as master of ceremonies. The mock trial teams of Pope John XXIII Regional High School and Newton High School will be honored. Kelly Sherwood, immediate past president of the Sussex County Bar Association, will be presented with the 2024 Law Day award. 

Law Day is a national event established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 as “a day of national dedication to the principles of government under law.”