[1] After graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937,[3] Joelson went to attend the university's law school.

[1] During World War II, Joelson served as an ensign in the Far Eastern Branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he learned and mastered the Japanese language.

[6] Afterwards, Joelson then went on to the Passaic County's Prosecutor's Office and then became the director of the state's criminal investigation division and served that post from 1958 to 1960.

The legislation appropriated over a billion dollars for public school libraries, remedial programs and guidance counseling.

[8][9] Joelson had asked the state's governor at the time, Richard J. Hughes for a seat in the New Jersey Superior Court.