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New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 2000 / Former Justice

Jaynee LaVecchia

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Jaynee LaVecchia was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-Camden

Judicial Record

In our data, LaVecchia authored 237 published opinions for the court (2000–2019), plus 39 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Harris (820 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. 165 of these were attributed to LaVecchia 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
2004	State v. Harris	859 A.2d 364	820
2007	In Re Herrmann	926 A.2d 350	594
2012	State v. Gaitan†	209 N.J. 339	392
2010	State v. Gandhi	989 A.2d 256	330
2015	State v. William L. Witt(074468)· Dissent†	223 N.J. 409	276
2004	State v. Pineiro· Concurrence†	853 A.2d 887	261
2011	State v. Rose	19 A.3d 985	252
2008	Hisenaj v. Kuehner†	942 A.2d 769	251
2011	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. P.W.R.	11 A.3d 844	239
2001	Wilson v. Amerada Hess Corp.	773 A.2d 1121	236
2002	Martindale v. Sandvik, Inc.	800 A.2d 872	230
2006	State v. Pierce	902 A.2d 1195	226
2006	State v. Chapland	901 A.2d 351	215
2005	Thiedemann v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC	872 A.2d 783	207
2014	Lorraine Gormley v. Latanya Wood-El (069717)· Dissent†	218 N.J. 72	206

Showing the 15 most-cited of 304 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 Jaynee LaVecchia on?: Jaynee LaVecchia was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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26 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).