Jaynee LaVecchia at a glance
- Current role
- Former Judge
- Current assignment
- Supreme Court of New Jersey
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey · State
- Judicial service
- Former
Jaynee LaVecchia
Former Judge · Supreme Court of New Jersey
Biography
Professional career
- Judge, Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2000-present
- Retired American judge who held the role of Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from February 1, 2000, until her retirement on December 31, 2021
- 1989–1994: Director and Chief Administrative Law Judge for the NJ Office of Administrative Law
Education
- Rutgers School of Law–Newark in — J.D. (1979)
- Douglass College — B.A.
- Rutgers University-Camden — J.D.
Additional information
- Reappointed with tenure by Governor Jon Corzine in 2006 and served until her voluntary retirement in 2021, though she had been eligible to serve until 2024
- Nominated by Governor Christine Todd Whitman on January 6, 2000, confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on January 10, 2000, and sworn in on February 1, 2000, replacing Marie L. Garibaldi.
- Practitioner, 1999-1999
- Born October 9, 1954, in Paterson, New Jersey.
- Date of birth: 1954-10-09
- She also practiced law privately and was a Fellow of the American Bar Association
- She is also an elected member of the American Law Institute
- She is a member of the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni and has received multiple awards, including the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Medal of Honor, the New Jersey Women of Achievement Award, and the Rutgers Law School Distinguished Alumni Award.
- Birth place: Paterson
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