Stuart Rabner at a glance
- Current role
- Chief Justice
- Current assignment
- Supreme Court of New Jersey
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey · State
- Judicial service
- Active
Stuart Rabner
Chief Justice · Supreme Court of New Jersey
Biography
Professional career
- Judge, Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2007-present
- Stuart Jeff Rabner is the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a position he has held since June 29, 2007
- Governor Jon Corzine nominated Rabner as Chief Justice in 2007, succeeding James R. Zazzali
- Law clerk to U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise
- Overhauled the state’s bail system through a comprehensive pretrial justice reform
- He previously served as New Jersey Attorney General, chief counsel to Governor Jon Corzine, and as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey
Education
- J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1985
- Harvard University — J.D.
Additional information
- Re‐nominated for tenure in 2014 by Governor Chris Christie and confirmed by the Senate.
- Rabner is the valedictorian of his Passaic High School class and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1982, with a senior thesis on the U.S. government’s treatment of Nazi war criminals.
- Born June 30, 1960, Passaic, New Jersey.
- Date of birth: 1960-01-01
- Rabner is recognized for a calm, measured, and consensus‐oriented leadership style, emphasizing rigorous analysis and fairness in judicial processes
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