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 1994 / Served to 2003

James H. Coleman

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

James H. Coleman was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2003 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Coleman authored 118 published opinions for the court (1995–2003), plus 15 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (3,095 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. 39 of these were attributed to Coleman 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
1995	Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America	666 A.2d 146	3,095
1995	Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan	658 A.2d 1230	2,534
1999	State v. Locurto	724 A.2d 234	859
2002	Flagg v. Essex County Prosecutor	796 A.2d 182	851
1997	State v. Hoffman	695 A.2d 236	377
1999	State v. Frost	727 A.2d 1	360
1997	Brady v. Board of Review· Dissent†	704 A.2d 547	357
1997	State v. Marrero	691 A.2d 293	297
2001	State v. Brown	784 A.2d 1244	265
2002	State v. Stovall· Concurrence†	788 A.2d 746	225
2000	State v. Murray	744 A.2d 131	212
2002	State v. Carty	790 A.2d 903	205
2003	Frugis v. Bracigliano· Concurrence†	827 A.2d 1040	181
2001	State v. Carey	775 A.2d 495	178
1995	Young v. Schering Corp.	660 A.2d 1153	172

Showing the 15 most-cited of 151 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 James H. Coleman on?: James H. Coleman was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).