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 2002 / Former Justice

Barry T. Albin

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Barry T. Albin was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-Camden
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Albin authored 207 published opinions for the court (2002–2019), plus 91 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: DiProspero v. Penn (1,036 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. 225 of these were attributed to Albin 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
2005	DiProspero v. Penn	874 A.2d 1039	1,036
2007	State v. Elders	927 A.2d 1250	776
2013	State v. Nash†	212 N.J. 518	742
2008	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. E.P.	952 A.2d 436	680
2012	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. F.M.†	211 N.J. 420	522
2014	State v. William A. Case, Jr. (072688)†	220 N.J. 49	412
2012	State v. Gaitan· Dissent†	209 N.J. 339	392
2005	State v. Natale	878 A.2d 724	379
2013	Nicholas v. Mynster†	213 N.J. 463	367
2015	State v. Terrell Hubbard (073539)· Concurrence†	222 N.J. 249	353
2017	State v. S.S.†	229 N.J. 360	343
2014	Patricia Atalese v. U.S. Legal Services Group, L.P. (072314)†	219 N.J. 430	331
2016	Cathleen Quinn v. David J. Quinn (074411)· Dissent†	225 N.J. 34	318
2007	State v. Wakefield· Concurrence†	921 A.2d 954	284
2003	Knorr v. Smeal	836 A.2d 794	279

Showing the 15 most-cited of 336 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 Barry T. Albin on?: Barry T. Albin was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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24 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).