Elizabeth Vogelsong-Parvin to head the Office

TRENTON — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced his appointment of a new Acting County Prosecutor for Gloucester County, selecting the lead attorney from the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice’s (DCJ) Human Trafficking Unit for the role, as the current prosecutor approaches retirement.

Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Vogelsong-Parvin will replace Acting Gloucester County Prosecutor Christine Hoffman, who is set to retire effective July 1, 2024. Vogelsong-Parvin has been serving since April 24, 2023 in the Human Trafficking Unit, where she has prosecuted several high-profile criminal matters.

Most recently, Vogelsong-Parvin prosecuted an alleged operator of a human trafficking network in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A state grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment against the defendant.

“Liz Vogelsong-Parvin has led successful, priority prosecutions within the Attorney General’s Office, securing indictments, guilty pleas, and lengthy sentences for defendants in heinous and often complicated cases,” said Attorney General Platkin. “She approached this difficult work with a trauma-informed and victim-centric focus.  Her extensive prosecutorial experience, both with the Division of Criminal Justice and as a county-level prosecutor who tried more than two dozen cases, makes Liz well-qualified to lead the chief law enforcement agency in Gloucester County.”

“I am deeply grateful to Christine Hoffman for her service to the people of Gloucester County for the past four years,” added Attorney General Platkin. “She has been an asset who had a meaningful impact and steadily guided the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office through a period of challenges and transition. Congratulations to Christine on her many accomplishments and her well-deserved retirement.”

“I’m honored that the Attorney General has chosen me to lead the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office,” said incoming Acting County Prosecutor Elizabeth Vogelsong-Parvin. “I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with the investigators and prosecutors within the office, as well as the chiefs of police and law enforcement officers across the county, to promote justice, strengthen public safety, and ensure members of the community have trust in the public servants who uphold the law.”

Prior to joining the Division of Criminal Justice, Vogelsong-Parvin worked in a variety of roles within the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, where she was hired in September 2005. She was an assistant prosecutor who supervised trial teams for six years. She also worked as an attorney with the Special Victims’ Unit and has received specialized training in dealing with sexual assault and human trafficking cases. Additionally, she was a senior trial attorney who prosecuted major cases, including homicides, leading the prosecution in more than 25 jury trials. In 2015, Vogelsong-Parvin was presented the Outstanding Career Advocacy award by the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey for her unfaltering efforts in prosecuting and convicting a man who attacked and sexually assaulted multiple women in the City of Millville.

Earlier in her career, Vogelsong-Parvin served as a judicial law clerk to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Richard J. Geiger in state court in Cumberland County. During that clerkship she was involved in both family law and criminal cases.

A graduate of Rowan University, and later Villanova University’s School of Law, she has also served as the Cumberland County Bar Association President.

Currently, Vogelsong-Parvin oversees DCJ’s Human Trafficking Unit, which fights trafficking by training and assisting law enforcement in identifying victims and signs of human trafficking, by providing services to victims, and by successfully prosecuting suspects.

Outgoing Gloucester County Prosecutor Christine Hoffman was a deputy director of DCJ when she was appointed in March 2020 to lead the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office.  During her two-decade tenure in DCJ, she prosecuted cases statewide involving violent crimes, sex offenses, and white-collar crimes, and she handled appeals before state and federal courts. Early in her career, Hoffman served as an Assistant Prosecutor with the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office.

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