The head of the New Jersey Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has left to become a Superior Court judge.

Greta Gooden Brown

Greta Gooden Brown, who was sworn in as the state’s second insurance fraud prosecutor in May 2001, was replaced in an acting capacity by Riza Dagli, deputy chief counsel in the Medicaid Fraud Unit.

Gooden Brown, who lives in West Plainsboro, N.J., was nominated by Gov. Jon Corzine to the judgeship in Passaic County. That nomination was confirmed last week.

It remains unclear when a permanent replacement for Gooden Brown will be named by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, which houses the department within its Division of Criminal Justice.

Gooden Brown is the second insurance official to leave office recently. Steven M. Goldman, head of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, resigned June 29. He leaves July 19 to return to private law practice, working for a law firm in New York City. Neither an acting or permanent successor to Goldman has been named.