Carl Herman

Carl Herman is an attorney at law in New Jersey.  Carl recently retired as the Director of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy, Office of the New Jersey Public Defender, where he supervised a staff of 40 staff attorneys and 32 case investigators, as well as clerical and administrative staff.  Prior to assuming the position of Division Director, Carl was in private law practice in West Orange, where he specialized in criminal defense.  Over the course of his 35-year career defending criminal defendants in state and federal courts Carl tried over 150 jury trials, including eight state death penalty cases and five federal death penalty cases.  He was a member of the federal Criminal Justice Act Panel for over 25 years and was appointed as a death penalty expert attorney in 11 federal districts.  He has argued appeals in the Second, Third and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal.  He is a former member of the National Association of Criminal Defense lawyers as well as a former trustee of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.

Carl is a graduate of Brown University, and he obtained his law degree from the George Washington University National Law Center.  He served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Raymond W.  Young (Hudson County) and served as Assistant Deputy Public Advocate in the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the 1970’s, where he represented hundreds of clients in civil commitment hearings.