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 1932 / Served to 1959

Harry Heher

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Harry Heher was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1972
Tenure: 1932–1959 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Heher authored 776 published opinions for the court (1933–1959), plus 85 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield (808 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. 99 of these were attributed to Heher 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
1954	Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield· Concurrence†	110 A.2d 24	808
1953	Atlantic Northern Airlines, Inc. v. Schwimmer	96 A.2d 652	265
1957	State v. Kociolek	129 A.2d 417	197
1952	Schmidt v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, CITY OF NEWARK	88 A.2d 607	185
1958	Botta v. Brunner· Dissent†	138 A.2d 713	182
1957	Kozesnik v. Township of Montgomery· Concurrence†	131 A.2d 1	176
1958	West Jersey Title & Guaranty Co. v. Industrial Trust Co.	141 A.2d 782	162
1957	Gangemi v. Berry	134 A.2d 1	161
1952	Ward v. Scott· Dissent†	93 A.2d 385	161
1958	Borough of West Caldwell v. Borough of Caldwell	138 A.2d 402	157
1951	State v. Labato	80 A.2d 617	157
1934	Louis Kamm, Inc. v. Flink	175 A. 62	151
1949	New Jersey Turnpike Authority v. Parsons· Dissent	69 A.2d 875	143
1956	Alexander v. New Jersey Power & Light Co.	122 A.2d 339	136
1950	Handlon v. Town of Belleville	71 A.2d 624	130

Showing the 15 most-cited of 894 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 Harry Heher on?: Harry Heher was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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27 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).