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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1952

Henry Elijah Ackerson Jr.

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Henry Elijah Ackerson Jr. was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1970
Tenure: 1948–1952 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

New York Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Ackerson authored 59 published opinions for the court (1923–1952), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Panko v. Flintkote Co. (106 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. 1 of these was attributed to Ackerson 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
1951	Panko v. Flintkote Co.	80 A.2d 302	106
1950	Menth v. Breeze Corporation, Inc.	73 A.2d 183	100
1952	Hoffman v. Hock	86 A.2d 121	81
1950	United States Casualty Co. v. Hercules Powder Co.	72 A.2d 190	63
1950	Bacak v. Hogya	73 A.2d 167	62
1950	Bonanno v. Bonanno	72 A.2d 318	62
1951	Hansen v. Eagle-Picher Lead Co.	84 A.2d 281	59
1951	Peter W. Kero, Inc. v. Terminal Construction Corp.	78 A.2d 814	57
1950	Tortorello v. Reinfeld	77 A.2d 240	53
1950	Gellert v. Livingston	73 A.2d 916	51
1952	Kress v. City of Newark	86 A.2d 185	49
1951	Petersen v. Falzarano	79 A.2d 50	48
1951	Speakman v. Mayor and Council of Borough of North Plainfield	84 A.2d 715	46
1949	Seiken v. Todd Dry Dock, Inc.	67 A.2d 131	46
1952	George Siegler Co. v. Norton	86 A.2d 8	44

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

How do judges of the New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Henry Elijah Ackerson Jr. on?: Henry Elijah Ackerson Jr. was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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4 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).