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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

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Stuart Rabner

Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Stuart Rabner is a Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1960 · age 66
Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rabner authored 71 published opinions for the court (2007–2019), plus 9 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Henderson (487 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. 70 of these were attributed to Rabner 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
2011	State v. Henderson†	208 N.J. 208	487
2009	State v. Slater	966 A.2d 461	303
2013	New Jersey Department of Children & Families v. A.L.†	213 N.J. 1	271
2017	State v. Zuber†	227 N.J. 422	240
2010	Henry v. New Jersey Department of Human Services· Concurrence†	9 A.3d 882	227
2011	State v. Miller	13 A.3d 873	220
2008	State v. Jenewicz· Dissent†	940 A.2d 269	184
2008	Mason v. City of Hoboken	951 A.2d 1017	176
2012	State v. Lazo†	209 N.J. 9	173
2017	State v. Thomas L. Scott (077434) (Monmouth and Statewide)· Concurrence†	229 N.J. 469	133
2017	State v. Scott Robertson(075326)†	228 N.J. 138	129
2018	State v. J.L.G.†	190 A.3d 442	124
2009	Burnett v. County of Bergen	968 A.2d 1151	122
2018	State v. Sanchez-Medina†	231 N.J. 452	112
2017	State v. Anthony K. Cole (076255) (Middlesex and Statewide)· Concurrence†	229 N.J. 430	112

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 is Stuart Rabner on?: Stuart Rabner is a Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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19 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).