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# John Jay Hoffman

Supreme Court of New Jersey · Associate Justice

## Profile

- Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
- State: New Jersey
- Role: Associate Justice
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-08-22

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### media access and electronic devices

Scope: statewide

New Jersey statewide Supreme Court guidelines govern media access and electronic devices in courtrooms; recording, photography, broadcasting, and transmission require compliance with the published approval process and courtroom restrictions.

Evidence excerpt: Transmission, broadcasting, recording and/or photographing is prohibited at any proceeding closed by court order, statute, or Rule of Court.

[New Jersey Courts](https://www.njcourts.gov/sites/default/files/notices/2024/07/n240723a.pdf)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://www.njcourts.gov/courts/supreme/about)
- [Official roster](https://www.njcourts.gov/courts/supreme/about)
- [New Jersey Courts official judicial roster](https://www.njcourts.gov/courts/supreme/about)
- [New Jersey Courts](https://www.njcourts.gov/sites/default/files/notices/2024/07/n240723a.pdf)

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## Biography

### Professional career

- American lawyer and jurist who has held the role of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey since October 2, 2024, appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to succeed Justice Lee Solomon
- Governor Phil Murphy nominated Hoffman on June 10, 2024 to replace Justice Lee Solomon, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70
- From June 2013 to March 2016, he acted as Attorney General of New Jersey, the longest tenure by an acting AG in the state’s history
- He held the role of Director of Investigations at the New Jersey Comptroller’s Office (2010–2013) before becoming Executive Assistant Attorney General in the NJ Attorney General’s Office.
- Began as an associate at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C., then joined the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division in 1996, working on high-profile cases such as United States v
- Afterward, Hoffman was General Counsel and Senior Vice President at Rutgers University, serving as the state university’s chief legal officer
- He subsequently became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of New Jersey
- He later held the role of a law clerk to Judge Al Engel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Official Website of the New Jersey Judiciary

### Education

- Duke University School of Law — J.D.

### Additional information

- Born August 23, 1965.
- Winstar Corp..
- focusing on economic and white-collar crime
- Hoffman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and raised in Middlesex County.



## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [New Jersey Courts](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-c9ef48d54ca091cafd206659) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://www.njcourts.gov/sites/default/files/notices/2024/07/n240723a.pdf). Collected 2026-07-26.