Former Municipal Judge to Serve as Guest Speaker for Bayonne Historical Society

BAYONNE, NJ - Former Bayonne Municipal Court Judge Frank Carpenter III will be the guest speaker at the Bayonne Historical Society’s September meeting, the organization’s president, Lee Fahley, announced recently.

Judge Carpenter will discuss his thirty- two-year career as a Bayonne Municipal Court Judge at the event set to take place in the second-floor gallery at the Bayonne Public Library on Tuesday, September 10, at 7 p.m.

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The program is open to the public, including interested residents of other communities. Light refreshments will be served by the Bayonne Women’s Club.

“We are happy to have Judge Carpenter as our first guest speaker for the Historical Society’s 2024-2025 season,” Fahley said. “He presided over thousands of cases in Bayonne Municipal Court and served on numerous judicial committees. We look forward to hearing his stories about the situations and personalities he encountered during his judicial career.”

Judge Carpenter is a graduate of Marist High School, St. Peter’s College (now called St. Peter’s University), and Seton Hall University Law School. The  future judge served as Assistant Football Coach at St. Peter’s College from 1968 to 1971.

Carpenter was admitted to the practice of law in New Jersey in 1974, and, early in his career, served as a law clerk for Judges John McCole, Henry McFarland, and Mortimer Neuman.

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Since 1975, he has practiced law in Bayonne in the firm of Carpenter and Carpenter. He was appointed Judge of the Bayonne Municipal Court in 1990.

In 2007, New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner designated Judge Carpenter the Presiding Municipal Judge of the Hudson County Vicinage, the county’s court district. He was elevated to Chief Municipal Judge in 2009. He supervised and trained all municipal court judges in Hudson County.

Judge Carpenter had numerous assignments and served on several committees during his judicial career: Presiding Judge Conference; Chairman of the State Police Working Group; Hudson County Re-Entry Task Force; Domestic Violence Working Group; Comprehensive Judicial Orientation Program; Supreme Court Committee on Electronic Discovery; Chairman of the Subcommittee on Prisons and Jails; Hudson County Jail Home Confinement Committee; Supreme Court Municipal Practices Committee; Hudson County Serial Inebriate Program; Hudson County Committee on Professionalism; Supreme Court Committee on Bench/Bar/Media; E-Ticket Committee; Special Form of Compliant Working Group; Designated Judge, Involuntary Outpatient Commitment; and Designated Judge, Telephonic Blood Search Warrants.

Judge Carpenter retired from the bench in 2022.

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