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| Name | Gary S. Stein |
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| Info | Justice Heher was born at Trenton, New Jersey, on March 20, 1889. He is the son of John and Anne Spelman Heher. He was educated at the Cathedral School of his native city and at the Trenton High School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1907. He read law with Charles E. Gummere, and was admitted to the Bar at the February, 1911, Term of the Supreme Court. He practiced law at Trenton until October 20, 1932, when he was given an ad interim appointment by Governor Moore as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Luther A. Campbell, lately appointed Chancellor of New Jersey. He took the oath of office on October 24, 1932. At the ensuing session of the Legislature his nomination for a full term of seven years was forwarded to the Senate by Governor Moore, and Confirmed. He was commissioned on March 9, 1933. In 1940, he was reappointed by Governor Moore for a second term and, in 1947, was named by Governor Driscoll for a third term. On December 8, 1947, Governor Driscoll nominated him as an associate justice of the new Supreme Court created by the Constitution of 1947, and the nomination was confirmed on December 15, 1947, effective September 15, 1948, when the court was organized. Justice Haher retired from the court on March 19, 1959.
In April, 1915, Justice Heher was elected chairman of the Mercer County Democratic Executive Committee. He served his party in that capacity until February 21, 1922, when he was elected chairman of the Democratic State Committee. He held this office until his elevation to the Supreme Court.
Justice Stein was serving as director of the Office of Policy and Planning when Gov. Thomas H. Kean announced his intention to appoint him to the Supreme Court on Nov. 7, 1984. The Senate confirmed the nomination Nov. 19, and Justice Stein was sworn by Chief Justice Wilentz on Jan, 11, 1985. He served on the Court until he retired on Aug. 31, 2002.
Justice Stein was born June 13, 1933 in Newark. He is a 1954 graduate of Duke University and was graduated with distinction at Duke Law School in 1956. He was associate editor of the Duke Law Review. He specialized in corporate and anti-trust law as a member of the New York firm of Kramer, Marx, Greenlee, and Backus for a 10-year period until 1966, when he established his own practice. He was a partner in the Paramus law firm of Stein and Kurland from 1972 to 1982. Justice Stein was counsel to the Election Law Revision Commission in 1970 and 1971. He was Paramus borough attorney from 1967 to 1970 and was counsel to the Teaneck Board of Adjustment from 1973 to 1982. Active in a number of professional organizations, Justice Stein was 1981 chairman of the District Ethics Committee for Bergen County. He was chairman of the State Bar Association Committee on State Legislation from 1973 to 1976. He and his wife, Et, are the parents of four daughters and a son.
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