Lee Solomon
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Hon. Lee Solomon |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey | |
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Assumed office June 19, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Governor Chris Christie |
| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 6th Legislative District |
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In office February 21, 1992 – January 9, 1996 Serving with John A. Rocco |
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| Preceded by | Thomas J. Shusted |
| Succeeded by | Louis Greenwald |
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August 17, 1954 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | United States |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Dianne Solomon |
| Residence | Haddonfield, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | B.S. Muhlenberg College J.D. Widener University School of Law |
Lee A. Solomon (born August 17, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He was nominated by Governor Chris Christie to serve on May 21, 2014 and confirmed by the New Jersey Senate and sworn in on June 19, 2014.
Solomon was born in Philadelphia in 1954 and attended public schools. He is a 1975 graduate of Muhlenberg College and graduated in 1978 from Widener University School of Law. Before his Supreme Court tenure, he had been an elected Republican politician serving as councilman from the borough of Haddon Heights, a Camden County Freeholder, and a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 6th Legislative District from 1992 until 1996. In 1992, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress running against Rob Andrews in the 1st congressional district. He has also served as Camden County prosecutor and as a Deputy U.S. Attorney for the New Jersey District during the time Christie was the U.S. Attorney for the district.
In 2006, Solomon was appointed by Governor Richard Codey to be a judge in the Superior Court from Camden County, first in the Family Division, later the Criminal Division. He had been president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) from February 23, 2010 until December 2011. At the end of his BPU term, he rejoined the Superior Court in the Civil Division and later an assignment judge. Solomon was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2014 by Christie as a part of a deal with Senate Democrats to fill two vacant seats on the court. He was confirmed by the Senate in a 36 to 2 vote.
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