[3] Ferster led a protest of Nazi persecution of minorities in Orange, New Jersey on February 25, 1939.
[5] Governor Charles Edison appointed him to serve as a Commissioner of the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission in 1941.
[6] In 1951, Ferster joined the Administration of Governor Alfred Driscoll as the Deputy Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and as Director of the Division of Compensation.
[7] Governor Robert B. Meyner appointed Ferster to serve as a Judge of the New Jersey Workers Compensation Court.
[8] Following his death in 1967, friends and colleagues established the Samuel J. Ferster Scholarship at Rutgers University Law School.