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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1996 / Served to 2006

Deborah Tobias Poritz

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Deborah Tobias Poritz was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1996–2006 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

CUNY Brooklyn College
University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Poritz authored 50 published opinions for the court (1997–2006), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Hubbard Ex Rel. Hubbard v. Reed (253 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. 15 of these were attributed to Poritz 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
2001	Hubbard Ex Rel. Hubbard v. Reed	774 A.2d 495	253
2004	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. P.P.	852 A.2d 1093	197
2002	TOLL BROS, INC. v. Tp. of West Windsor	803 A.2d 53	166
1997	State v. P.Z.†	152 N.J. 86	145
2006	Lewis v. Harris· Concurrence†	908 A.2d 196	133
2002	State v. Long· Concurrence†	801 A.2d 221	114
2001	Burns v. Belafsky	766 A.2d 1095	110
1999	State v. Martini	734 A.2d 257	99
2003	Green v. Jersey City Board of Education	828 A.2d 883	98
2002	State v. Marshall	801 A.2d 1142	95
2001	State v. Thomas· Dissent†	767 A.2d 459	81
2001	Palanque v. Lambert-Woolley	774 A.2d 501	80
1998	Baxt v. Liloia	714 A.2d 271	72
2000	Kasper v. TEACHERS'PEN. & ANN. FUND· Dissent†	754 A.2d 525	70
1999	State v. Loftin	724 A.2d 129	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Deborah Tobias Poritz on?: Deborah Tobias Poritz was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).