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 2006 / Served to 2013

Helen E. Hoens

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Helen E. Hoens was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2006–2013 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

College of William and Mary
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoens authored 78 published opinions for the court (2007–2013), plus 14 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Carter (407 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. 48 of these were attributed to Hoens 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
2007	In Re Carter	924 A.2d 525	407
2011	Pomerantz Paper Corp. v. New Community Corp.	25 A.3d 221	369
2009	Bosland v. Warnock Dodge, Inc.	964 A.2d 741	346
2011	J.D. v. M.D.F.†	207 N.J. 458	330
2013	Anthony D'agostino v. Ricardo Maldonado (068940)· Concurrence†	216 N.J. 168	298
2011	State v. McLean	16 A.3d 332	225
2008	PV Ex Rel. TV v. Camp Jaycee· Dissent†	962 A.2d 453	215
2010	Victor v. State†	203 N.J. 383	201
2011	State v. Handy· Dissent†	18 A.3d 179	198
2010	Flomerfelt v. Cardiello	997 A.2d 991	196
2010	State v. Blackmon	997 A.2d 194	184
2012	State v. Singleton· Dissent†	211 N.J. 157	168
2013	Price v. Himeji, LLC†	214 N.J. 263	167
2009	Leang v. Jersey City Board of Education	969 A.2d 1097	156
2008	State v. Chun†	943 A.2d 114	156

Showing the 15 most-cited of 96 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 Helen E. Hoens on?: Helen E. Hoens was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).