Jim McClain Nominated For Superior Court Judge

Atlantic County could soon need a new prosecutor.

Jim McClain, 58, is one of three people Gov. Chris Christie filed notice of intent Monday to nominate for Superior Court judge.

 McClain, who lives in Mays Landing, has spent his entire 33-year career in the office he now leads, taking an assistant position after passing the bar in 1983. Before that, he had a one-year clerkship for a Hudson County Superior Court judge, which also was in criminal law.

McClain became acting prosecutor in June 2012, after then-Prosecutor Ted Housel stepped down. It took two years before McClain was officially sworn in to the spot.

Housel made McClain his second in command in October 2010.

As a prosecutor, McClain has supervised the investigations of and tried cases relating to public and police corruption, white-collar crime, the sexual and physical abuse of children, vehicular assault and homicide, and environmental and bias crimes.

The vicinage that covers Atlantic and Cape May counties has been short on judges for some time.

Also nominated were Atlantic City Administrative Law Judge William Todd Miller, of Linwood, and Ventnor Municipal Judge Mary Siracusa.

The nominees now must be referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, then be interviewed and then voted on.
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