Sarah Adelman Monday moved a step closer to officially running the Department of Human Services, a sprawling bureaucracy that serves one in three children and one in four adults in New Jersey, when a key Senate panel approved the acting commissioner’s nomination. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination by a 10-0 vote. The full 40-member Senate is expected to vote on her nomination Thursday. The confirmation hearing was brief and relatively easy. After Adelman delivered her opening remarks, she fielded four questions, including one from Sen. Jon Bramnick, R-Union, who asked wheth…