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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 2011 / Active

Anne M. Patterson

Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Anne M. Patterson is an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1959 · age 67
Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Patterson authored 80 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 12 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Deborah Townsend v. Noah Pierre (072357) (756 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. 93 of these were attributed to Patterson 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
2015	Deborah Townsend v. Noah Pierre (072357)†	221 N.J. 36	756
2016	Globe Motor Company v. Ilya Igdalev(074996)†	225 N.J. 469	639
2014	State v. Reinaldo Fuentes (070729)†	217 N.J. 57	627
2012	US Bank National Ass'n v. Guillaume	38 A.3d 570	499
2015	State v. Duquene Pierre(072859)†	223 N.J. 560	318
2013	Anthony D'agostino v. Ricardo Maldonado (068940)†	216 N.J. 168	298
2014	Tahir Zaman v. Barbara Felton (072128)†	219 N.J. 199	291
2016	Michael J. Thieme v. Bernice F. Aucoin-Thieme(076683)†	227 N.J. 269	272
2019	Dimitrakopoulos v. Borrus, Goldin, Foley, Vignuolo, Hyman & Stahl, P.C.†	203 A.3d 133	266
2014	Robert Lavezzi v. State of N.J. (072856)†	219 N.J. 163	262
2018	RSI Bank v. Providence Mut. Fire Ins. Co.†	191 A.3d 629	228
2014	State v. Carlos Bolvito (071493)†	217 N.J. 221	226
2014	Manahawkin Convalescent v. Frances O'neill (071033)†	217 N.J. 99	221
2012	State v. Galicia†	210 N.J. 364	199
2013	Town of Kearny v. Brandt†	214 N.J. 76	186

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 is Anne M. Patterson on?: Anne M. Patterson is an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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15 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).