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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1999

Alan B. Handler

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Alan B. Handler was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1977–1999 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Handler authored 314 published opinions for the court (1977–1999), plus 101 dissents and 103 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Fritz (1,823 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 228 of these were attributed to Handler by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1987	State v. Fritz	519 A.2d 336	1,823
1997	State v. Marshall· Dissent†	690 A.2d 1	771
1987	State v. Ramseur· Dissent†	524 A.2d 188	731
1999	In Re the Guardianship of K.H.O.	736 A.2d 1246	518
1984	State v. Kelly· Concurrence†	478 A.2d 364	515
1993	Hopkins v. Fox & Lazo Realtors	625 A.2d 1110	484
1994	State v. DiFrisco· Dissent†	645 A.2d 734	455
1991	State v. Marshall· Dissent†	586 A.2d 85	445
1984	Metromedia, Inc. v. Director, Division of Taxation	478 A.2d 742	426
1999	In Re the Guardianship of DMH	736 A.2d 1261	410
1987	State v. Novembrino· Concurrence†	519 A.2d 820	387
1988	State v. Koedatich· Dissent†	548 A.2d 939	379
1992	In Re the Guardianship of J.C.	608 A.2d 1312	341
1999	State v. Timmendequas· Dissent†	737 A.2d 55	325
1982	State v. Hunt· Concurrence†	450 A.2d 952	319

Showing the 15 most-cited of 518 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Alan B. Handler on?: Alan B. Handler was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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22 years on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).