Michael Walters

Acting Director

Michael C. Walters is the Acting Director of the Division of Law. Walters previously served as Deputy Director of the Division with oversight of the Litigation Practice Group, where has supervised the coordination and development of litigation strategy for defending the State of New Jersey, its agencies, and current and former State employees. Prior to that, Walters was a section chief and a line deputy in the Division’s Education and Higher Education Section. He joined the Division of Law in 1999. He has briefed and/or argued a wide range of issues before the New Jersey Appellate Division, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Walters clerked for the Honorable Myron H. Gottlieb, J.S.C. He received his J.D. from Rutgers Law School.