MyCentralJersey.com NEW BRUNSWICK – A former Superior Court judge is suing the state's judiciary for back pay during a five-year suspension while criminal and ethics charges against her were resolved. Carlia Brady, who is described in the federal lawsuit as the "quintessential American success story" and was the first Filipino-American to become a New Jersey Superior Court judge, claims in the suit she is owed the pay from June 12, 2013, to March 5, 2018, which would be more than $700,000. Brady's seven-year "nightmare" through the criminal justice system began when she, who was living in Woodbridge at the time, learned that Jason Prontnicki. her live-in boyfriend and father of her unborn child, was wanted for the robbery of an Old Bridge drugstore on April 29, 2013.