Hon. Georgia M. Curio (Ret.) was the assignment judge for the Cumberland/Gloucester/Salem County Superior Court (Vicinage 15) in New Jersey. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Christine Todd Whitman in 1995 and reappointed for tenure in 2002. Curio retired in 2017.
Over the course of her judicial career, she held assignments in the Criminal Division (1995 to 1997), Family Division (1997 to 2000), and Civil Division (2000 to 2005) in Cumberland County. Curio was named presiding judge of the Civil Division in 2001 and served in that capacity until assuming the assignment judge position in 2005.
Prior to joining the bench, she was a sole practitioner in her own private practice, the Law Offices of Georgia M. Curio, in Vineland. Curio entered into solo practice in 1991 after practicing as an associate for seven years at the law firm of Gruccio, Pepper, Giovinazzi & De Santo (1984 to 1991). Before that, she was an attorney at Kavesh & Basile (1980 to 1984).
She received a bachelor’s degree from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in 1977. Curio went on to complete a J.D. at Rutgers Law School in 1980.
She was designated a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court (1990).
Curio sat as a member of the Supreme Court’s Minority Concerns Committee, Arbitration Advisory Committee on Judicial Financial Reporting, Ad Hoc Committee on the Code of Judicial Conduct, Bench Bar Media Committee, Committee on Jury Selection in Criminal and Civil Trials, Committee on Criminal Justice, and Committee on Judicial Education.
She was also a member of the Judiciary Budget and Planning Committee (chair), the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, the Statewide Judiciary Security Committee (chair), the Sovereign Citizen Judge Advisory Group, the New Jersey Supreme Court Ad Hoc Committee on Domestic Violence (chair), and the Judicial Council Labor Relations and Personnel Committee.
In 2019, Curio was appointed to a three-year term on the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.
Following her retirement, she opened her own private alternative dispute resolution and mediation practice.