Who appointed Freda L. Wolfson?

President George W. Bush appointed Freda L. Wolfson to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 2002.

Was Freda L. Wolfson appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Freda L. Wolfson was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Freda L. Wolfson's confirmation vote?

Freda L. Wolfson was confirmed by voice vote on November 14, 2002. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of New Jersey / Appointed 2002 / Served to 2023

Freda L. Wolfson

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 and confirmed by voice vote, Freda L. Wolfson was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She earned a law degree from Rutgers School of Law -- Newark in 1979. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Appointed by: George W. Bush, 2002
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Rutgers 1976 · Rutgers Law -- Newark 1979
Succeeded: Nicholas H. Politan
Succeeded by: Robert Andrew Kirsch

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	District of New Jersey succeeded Nicholas H. Politan	G.W. Bush (R)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Rutgers University	B.A.	1976
Rutgers School of Law -- Newark	J.D.	1979

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Wolfson was assigned 8,896 district-court cases (1981–2023). Median time from filing to termination: 211 days across 8,886 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts24%

Other civil matters12%

Contract12%

Other federal statutes11%

Civil rights10%

Labor & ERISA7%

Other23%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 259 of Wolfson’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 220 were affirmed, 33 reversed or vacated, and 6 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Wolfson authored 60 published opinions for the court (1993–2011). Most cited: Arcand v. Brother International Corp. (100 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2009	Arcand v. Brother International Corp.	673 F. Supp. 2d 282	100
2009	Maniscalco v. Brother International Corp.	627 F. Supp. 2d 494	69
2009	State Capital Title & Abstract Co. v. Pappas Business Services, LLC	646 F. Supp. 2d 668	55
2011	District 1199P Health & Welfare Plan v. Janssen, L.P.	784 F. Supp. 2d 508	45
2009	Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. v. Amersham Health, Inc.	627 F. Supp. 2d 384	37
2010	National Junior Baseball League v. Pharmanet Development Group Inc.	720 F. Supp. 2d 517	36
1999	Mattson v. Hawkins (In Re Hawkins)	231 B.R. 222	31
2011	Maniscalco v. Brother International Corp.	793 F. Supp. 2d 696	26
1999	Voilas v. General Motors Corp.	73 F. Supp. 2d 452	25
2008	Ference v. Township of Hamilton	538 F. Supp. 2d 785	24
2006	Adamson v. Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.	463 F. Supp. 2d 496	23
1996	Excelsior Insurance v. Pennsbury Pain Center	975 F. Supp. 342	23
1995	Ciba-Geigy Corp. v. Sandoz Ltd.	916 F. Supp. 404	23
2003	Jones v. Intelli-Check, Inc.	274 F. Supp. 2d 615	22
2005	In Re Exxon Mobil Corp. Securities Litigation	387 F. Supp. 2d 407	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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

Who appointed Freda L. Wolfson?: President George W. Bush appointed Freda L. Wolfson to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 2002.
Was Freda L. Wolfson appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Freda L. Wolfson was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Freda L. Wolfson's confirmation vote?: Freda L. Wolfson was confirmed by voice vote on November 14, 2002. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Freda L. Wolfson on?: Freda L. Wolfson was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Sources

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20 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).