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 1957 / Served to 1973

Haydn Proctor

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Haydn Proctor was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1996
Tenure: 1957–1973 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Proctor authored 208 published opinions for the court (1957–1973), plus 13 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Close v. Kordulak Bros. (456 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. 42 of these were attributed to Proctor 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
1965	Close v. Kordulak Bros.· Concurrence†	210 A.2d 753	456
1971	Avdel Corporation v. Mecure	277 A.2d 207	207
1965	Cintrone v. Hertz Truck Leasing & Rental Service· Concurrence†	212 A.2d 769	202
1972	Bexiga v. Havir Manufacturing Corp.	290 A.2d 281	174
1961	Sanzari v. Rosenfeld	167 A.2d 625	166
1970	Immer v. Risko	267 A.2d 481	153
1967	Mellk v. Sarahson	229 A.2d 625	151
1960	State v. Johnson	158 A.2d 11	151
1965	David v. Vesta Co.	212 A.2d 345	141
1960	Smith v. Brennan	157 A.2d 497	134
1959	Cosmopolitan Mutual Insurance v. Continental Casualty Co.	147 A.2d 529	134
1967	Gleitman v. Cosgrove	227 A.2d 689	132
1965	State v. King	209 A.2d 110	128
1964	Kingsley v. Hawthorne Fabrics, Inc.	197 A.2d 673	126
1972	State v. Farrell	293 A.2d 176	125

Showing the 15 most-cited of 234 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 Haydn Proctor on?: Haydn Proctor was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).