MCPO Promotes Legal Team Member to Supervising Assistant Prosecutor
Published on January 14, 2025
Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll, First Assistant Prosecutor Maggie Calderwood, and Chief of Detectives Robert McNally announce the promotion of Tara Wang to Supervising Assistant Prosecutor of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office.
A formal ceremony was held on January 13, 2025, at the Commissioners Public Meeting Room.
Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Wang will supervise the Domestic Violence and Firearms Returns Units within the Family Division.
SAP Wang began her career with the MCPO as a legal intern in 2010 and 2011. She later worked briefly for a civil defense firm and clerked for Civil Judge David H. Ironson in Morris County, before formally joining the MCPO in 2014 as an Assistant Prosecutor assigned to the Juvenile Unit. While assigned to the General Investigations Unit, she successfully tried State v. Jamal Nurse, involving the armed robbery of a Babies-R-Us in East Hanover, where defendant received a 12-year prison sentence; and State v. Casey Powers, involving a burglary of firearms from a residence in Mount Olive which resulted in a 15-year prison sentence.
In 2018, SAP Wang was transferred to the Major Crimes and Arson & Environment Crimes units, and was promoted to Senior Assistant Prosecutor in August 2023. While assigned to those units, she has been involved in a number of notable cases, including the trial of defendant John Formisano, an Acting Newark Police Lieutenant who was convicted of murdering his estranged wife and attempting to murder her boyfriend in Jefferson. In 2023, SAP Wang brought to trial the case of State v. Edwin Urbina, who was ultimately convicted of murdering a three-year-old boy in East Hanover. The defendant in that case received a sentence of life without parole plus 20 years.
SAP Wang has completed several noteworthy trainings while a member of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office, including the Division of Criminal Justice’s Basic Course for Arson Investigators, Child First/Finding Words, and Top Gun here in New Jersey, as well as the National Computer Forensics Institute’s Digital Evidence in Court for Prosecutor’s Program in Hoover, Alabama. She herself has also taught the Legal Considerations block of instruction at the NJIAAI Basic Fire Investigator Course and periodic trainings at the Morris County Public Safety Academy.
SAP Wang earned her Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Mawr College.
Prosecutor Carroll said, “I am pleased to promote SAP Wang, who is a highly-qualified and dedicated professional, to a leadership role in the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. She is a skilled trial attorney, and other assistant prosecutors can benefit from her knowledge and experience.”
(L-R) First Assistant Prosecutor Maggie Calderwood, Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Tara Wang, and Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll.