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BRIDGETON - Cumberland County freeholders voted late Thursday to appoint Brendan Kavanagh as the new county solicitor.
Kavanagh will replace Gary Wodlinger, who vacated the seat earlier this year to take a position as a Superior Court judge. Since then, Wodlinger's longtime law partners - notably Robert Malestein - had been filling the role.
Kavanagh is a Millville attorney who has done legal work for the county government for several years.
He also is Millville's Democratic chairman, and he managed the successful election campaigns of Freeholders Lou Magazzu and Nelson Thompson, who were among the six Democratic freeholders who confirmed Kavanagh's three-year appointment on Thursday night.
Four candidates applied for the job, including three from Cumberland County who have done work for the county government in the past: Kavanagh's firm, Malestein's firm, and the firm of Arnie Robinson, a Millville attorney. All three have supported local Democratic campaigns as well.
Magazzu, the freeholder board's director, said Friday he expected all three would continue doing some legal work for the county, with Kavanagh being at the forefront.
"They all had pluses and no minuses," Magazzu said.
Contact Daniel Walsh:
856-649-2074
Posted in Cumberland, Breaking on Friday, November 13, 2009 6:35 pm
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