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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 2003 / Served to 2010

John E. Wallace Jr.

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

John E. Wallace Jr. was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 2003–2010 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wallace authored 98 published opinions for the court (2003–2010), plus 16 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. M.M. (699 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 Wallace 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	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. M.M.· Dissent†	914 A.2d 1265	699
2007	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. G.L.· Concurrence†	926 A.2d 320	409
2010	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. M.C.†	201 N.J. 328	355
2006	State v. Castagna	901 A.2d 363	338
2005	State v. Torres	874 A.2d 1084	294
2007	State v. Wakefield· Dissent†	921 A.2d 954	284
2004	State v. Pineiro	853 A.2d 887	261
2009	State v. Echols†	199 N.J. 344	250
2007	State v. O'NEAL	921 A.2d 1079	210
2004	New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. P.P.· Concurrence†	852 A.2d 1093	197
2007	Liberty Surplus Insurance v. Amoroso†	189 N.J. 436	196
2009	State v. Nuñez-Valdéz†	200 N.J. 129	191
2010	State v. Blackmon· Dissent†	997 A.2d 194	184
2004	Tarr v. Ciasulli	853 A.2d 921	184
2009	Division of Youth & Family Services v. G.M.†	198 N.J. 382	176

Showing the 15 most-cited of 127 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 John E. Wallace Jr. on?: John E. Wallace Jr. 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).