How do judges of the New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1957

Arthur T. Vanderbilt

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Arthur T. Vanderbilt was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1957
Tenure: 1948–1957 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Illinois Wesleyan University
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Vanderbilt authored 187 published opinions for the court (1948–1957), plus 25 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Winberry v. Salisbury (275 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. 37 of these were attributed to Vanderbilt 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
1950	Winberry v. Salisbury	74 A.2d 406	275
1957	State v. Kociolek· Dissent†	129 A.2d 417	197
1952	Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co.	86 A.2d 201	194
1957	Tessmar v. Grosner· Dissent†	128 A.2d 467	150
1952	State v. Weleck	91 A.2d 751	145
1949	New Jersey Turnpike Authority v. Parsons	69 A.2d 875	143
1953	State v. Winne	96 A.2d 63	137
1956	Ferdinand v. Agricultural Ins. Co. of Watertown, NY	126 A.2d 323	135
1957	State v. Culver	129 A.2d 715	114
1957	Switz v. Township of Middletown· Dissent†	130 A.2d 15	110
1954	Standard Accident Insurance v. Pellecchia	104 A.2d 288	109
1956	Watt v. Mayor and Council of Borough of Franklin	121 A.2d 499	103
1957	Elizabeth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Howell	132 A.2d 779	100
1954	Mazza v. Cavicchia	105 A.2d 545	100
1949	Duffcon Concrete Products, Inc. v. Borough of Cresskill	64 A.2d 347	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 216 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 Arthur T. Vanderbilt on?: Arthur T. Vanderbilt was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).