Philip James Degnan is about to become a very busy man.
Degnan, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, was appointed today executive director of the New Jersey Commission of Investigation. The commission, established in 1968, is an independent state agency that investigates organized crime and public corruption in the Garden State. Degnan succeeds Alan A. Rockoff, who last month announced his intention to retire after serving eight years as the commission’s leader. Degnan will assume the helm of the commsission on May 9.
Degnan, 40, has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Newark, N.J. since 2004 and was most recently assigned to the office’s National Security Unit. He also served as coordinator of an inter-agency Counterproliferation Working Group. Degnan, who also served as law clerks to two of the state’s judges and was in private practice, is a graduate of Davidson College and earned his law degree from Seton Hall University Law School in Newark
