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 2012

Virginia Long

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

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

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1999–2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Rutgers University-Camden

Judicial Record

In our data, Long authored 150 published opinions for the court (1999–2012), plus 52 dissents and 27 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. 103 of these were attributed to Long 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· Concurrence†	859 A.2d 364	820
2011	Russo v. BD. OF TRUSTEES, POLICE.	17 A.3d 801	445
2005	Banco Popular North America v. Gandi	876 A.2d 253	400
2007	State v. Wakefield· Dissent†	921 A.2d 954	284
2007	Richardson v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System†	192 N.J. 189	282
2003	Knorr v. Smeal· Concurrence†	836 A.2d 794	279
2002	In Re the Guardianship of J.N.H.	799 A.2d 518	252
2001	Zacarias v. Allstate Insurance· Dissent†	775 A.2d 1262	234
2002	Viscik v. Fowler Equipment Co., Inc.	800 A.2d 826	216
2008	PV Ex Rel. TV v. Camp Jaycee	962 A.2d 453	215
2007	Pacifico v. Pacifico	920 A.2d 73	209
2010	State v. Bieniek· Dissent†	985 A.2d 1251	208
2011	State v. Handy	18 A.3d 179	198
2005	Zive v. Stanley Roberts, Inc.	867 A.2d 1133	192
2001	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	770 A.2d 255	192

Showing the 15 most-cited of 229 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 Virginia Long on?: Virginia Long was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).