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 1973 / Served to 1981

Mark A. Sullivan

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Mark A. Sullivan was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–2001
Tenure: 1973–1981 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 146 published opinions for the court (1972–1981), plus 16 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Green (373 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. 56 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
1981	State v. Green· Dissent†	430 A.2d 914	373
1975	State v. Johnson	346 A.2d 66	338
1981	State v. Hurd· Concurrence†	432 A.2d 86	277
1981	Beck v. Beck· Dissent†	432 A.2d 63	229
1978	State v. Miller	388 A.2d 218	188
1976	State v. Deatore· Concurrence†	358 A.2d 163	175
1975	Mimkon v. Ford· Concurrence†	332 A.2d 199	175
1980	O'KEEFFE v. Snyder· Dissent†	416 A.2d 862	170
1980	In Re the Closing of Jamesburg High School· Dissent†	416 A.2d 896	153
1978	Daaleman v. Elizabethtown Gas Company	390 A.2d 566	153
1979	Tevis v. Tevis· Concurrence†	79 N.J. 422	146
1973	Shell Oil Co. v. Marinello	307 A.2d 598	128
1981	Aetna Ins. Co. v. Gilchrist Brothers, Inc.· Dissent†	428 A.2d 1254	124
1973	Beckworth v. New Jersey State Parole Board· Concurrence†	301 A.2d 727	119
1977	Vreeland v. Byrne· Concurrence†	370 A.2d 825	118

Showing the 15 most-cited of 185 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 Mark A. Sullivan on?: Mark A. Sullivan was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).