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 1999 / Served to 2004

Peter Verniero

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Peter Verniero was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1959 · age 67
Tenure: 1999–2004 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Verniero authored 77 published opinions for the court (1999–2004), plus 21 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Packard-Bamberger & Co., Inc. v. Collier (339 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. 59 of these were attributed to Verniero 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
2001	Packard-Bamberger & Co., Inc. v. Collier	771 A.2d 1194	339
2001	Zacarias v. Allstate Insurance	775 A.2d 1262	234
2004	State v. Jenkins· Concurrence†	840 A.2d 242	228
2001	Garfinkel v. Morristown Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A.	773 A.2d 665	213
2003	State v. Nishina	816 A.2d 153	207
2002	Shepherd v. Hunterdon Developmental Center	803 A.2d 611	206
2000	State v. Presha	748 A.2d 1108	198
2004	State v. Fortin· Concurrence†	843 A.2d 974	163
2002	State v. Rodriguez	796 A.2d 857	160
2001	State v. Koskovich	776 A.2d 144	157
2002	Wade v. Kessler Institute	798 A.2d 1251	155
2001	State v. Sullivan	777 A.2d 60	152
2000	Estate of Roach v. Trw, Inc.	754 A.2d 544	148
2000	Schneider v. Simonini· Concurrence†	749 A.2d 336	148
2000	State v. Cooke	751 A.2d 92	146

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 Peter Verniero on?: Peter Verniero was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).