Clinical professor of law, deputy director of clinical programs, and
director of the Community Law Clinic
Professor Holmes earned an A.B. in government from Cornell in 1967
and a J.D. from Harvard in 1971. He joined the law school in 1997.
Professor Holmes was executive director of the Newark Housing
Development and Rehabilitation Corporation from 1971-1974, then served
as assistant commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community
Affairs and later as acting commissioner. From 1979 to 1987, he was
chief executive of the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development
Corp., where he supervised the management and planning of the
35,000-acre Newark Pequannock Watershed. In 1987, Professor Holmes
became a partner with Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer, PC, where he
practiced corporate transactions, real estate and development, sports
and entertainment law, and municipal law. In 1995, he became counsel to
Medvin & Elberg in Newark.
A former member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Disciplinary Review
Board and former president of the New Jersey Public Policy Research
Institute, Professor Holmes is a board member of the Public Interest Law
Center of New Jersey, a board member and secretary of Legal Services of
New Jersey, a board member of Minority Athletes Networking, and a member
of the board of trustees of the Victoria Foundation.
