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 1959 / Served to 1972

C Thomas Schettino

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

C Thomas Schettino was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1983
Tenure: 1959–1972 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-Camden
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Schettino authored 118 published opinions for the court (1947–1972), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Kampf v. Franklin Life Insurance (216 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. 17 of these were attributed to Schettino 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
1960	Kampf v. Franklin Life Insurance	161 A.2d 717	216
1961	Princeton University Press v. Borough of Princeton	172 A.2d 420	189
1959	Harvey v. Essex County Board of Freeholders	153 A.2d 10	180
1964	Bozza v. Vornado, Inc.	200 A.2d 777	118
1960	Reilly v. Ozzard· Dissent†	166 A.2d 360	108
1970	Peloso v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co.	267 A.2d 498	97
1962	State v. Perricone	181 A.2d 751	90
1963	Ahto v. Weaver· Dissent†	189 A.2d 27	87
1962	Bd. of Education of City of Asbury Park v. Hoek	183 A.2d 633	74
1959	Snyder v. I. Jay Realty Co.· Dissent†	153 A.2d 1	73
1962	Kulbacki v. Sobchinsky	185 A.2d 835	72
1970	The Presbyterian Homes v. Division of Tax Appeals	261 A.2d 143	71
1965	Kyle v. Green Acres at Verona, Inc.	207 A.2d 513	71
1970	Berkowitz v. Berkowitz	264 A.2d 49	61
1960	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America	158 A.2d 825	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 C Thomas Schettino on?: C Thomas Schettino was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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13 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).