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Trailblazer: Justice Fabiana Pierre-Louis

January 17, 2022 12:15 amJanuary 16, 2022 10:17 pm

Fabiana Pierre-Louis is the first Black woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Gov. Phil Murphy nominated Pierre-Louis as an Associate Justice of the state’s top court in 2020. She was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and replaced...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

January 17, 2022 12:02 amJanuary 16, 2022 10:14 pm

This story was first published on November 15, 2021. After the Legislature passed a special pension bill at the request of the Chief Justice, Judge Grant was reappointed in December 2021. The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking...

Murphy hints that he may appoint a Latina to the Supreme Court

November 22, 2021 4:05 pmNovember 22, 2021 4:05 pm

Asked at a press briefing today whether he’d commit to nominating the state’s first-ever Latina Supreme Court justice, Gov. Phil Murphy implied that he may, though he stopped well short of committing to any nomination in particular. “Without making specific...

Lack of judicial diversity is ‘unacceptable,’ Murphy says

November 15, 2021 4:01 pm

Responding today to a New Jersey Globe report that around 80% of the state’s judiciary is white, Gov. Phil Murphy said that the lack of diversity is unacceptable and is a status quo that needs to be changed. “That’s a...

N.J. Judiciary lacks diversity at highest levels, where 80% of appellate court judges are white

November 15, 2021 12:01 amNovember 15, 2021 10:34 pm

The upcoming retirement of one of the state’s highest-ranking Black jurists puts Chief Justice Stuart Rabner’s record of promoting mostly white judges on display at a time when Black and Hispanic leaders are upset that the state’s top three posts...

Who will the Supreme Court pick as the congressional redistricting tiebreaker? 15 questions — and answers — about what comes next

July 16, 2021 3:05 amJuly 16, 2021 3:50 pm

The New Jersey Supreme Court inherited a political hot potato on Thursday after Democratic and Republican commissioners on the Congressional Redistricting Commission failed to agree on a consensus candidate to serve as the independent 13th member of the panel. The...

Murphy nominates Rachel Wainer Apter to state’s high court

March 15, 2021 9:43 amMarch 15, 2021 11:06 am

Gov. Phil Murphy announced he will nominate Rachel Wainer Apter, the 40-year-old director of the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights and a former American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney, to fill the state Supreme Court left vacant by the upcoming...