Attorney General's Executive Leadership Team |
The Attorney General oversees the Department of Law & Public Safety with the support of his executive leadership team. The team advises the Attorney General on legal, policy, and administrative matters and assists with the day-to-day supervision of the Department’s divisions and initiatives. |
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Andrew Bruck
First Assistant Attorney General |
Jen Davenport
Principal Law Enforcement Advisor |
Christopher Edwards
Executive Assistant Attorney General |
Jonathan Garelick
Chief of Staff |
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Melanie Armstronog
Senior Counsel to the Attorney General |
Matthew Berns
Senior Counsel to the Attorney General |
Jeremy Feigenbaum
State Solicitor |
Stephan Finkel
Director of Legislative Affairs |
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Steven Barnes
Director of Communications |
Bryn Whittle
Director of Community Engagement |
Lora Fong
Chief Diversity Officer |
Elizabeth Ruebman
Special Advisor for Victim Services |
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Lisa Brown
Counsel to the Attorney General |
Christina Broderick
Counsel to the Attorney General |
Kirstin Krueger
Counsel to the Attorney General |
Keshav Poddar
Counsel to the Attorney General |
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Matthew Berns
Senior Counsel to the Attorney General |
Matthew Berns is an Assistant Attorney General, with the title of Senior Counsel to the Attorney General. In that role, Matt helps coordinate the Department’s affirmative civil enforcement and policy initiatives, and provides oversight for the Division on Civil Rights, the Division of Consumer Protection, and the Office of the New Jersey Coordinator for Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies (NJ CARES). Before joining the Office of the Attorney General, he spent three years at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served as a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division. Matt previously worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington and clerked for Judge Thomas Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal. |
