New Jersey Supreme Court

Supreme Court of New Jersey
Seal of the Supreme Court
Established	1947 in current form
Location	Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
Composition method	Executive appointment with legislative confirmation
Authorized by	New Jersey State Constitution
Decisions are appealed to	Supreme Court of the United States (on questions of federal constitutional or statutory law only)
Judge term length	7 years, then until 70 years age
Number of positions	7
Website	Official website
Chief Justice
Currently	Stuart Rabner
Since	June 29, 2007
Lead position ends	June 30, 2030 (mandatory retirement)

The Supreme Court of New Jersey is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In its current form, the Supreme Court of New Jersey is the final judicial authority on all cases in the state court system, the sole determinant of the constitutionality of state laws with respect to the state constitution, and the arbiter and overseer of the decennial legislative redistricting. One of its former members, William J. Brennan, Jr., became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

It has existed in three different forms under the three different state constitutions since the independence of the state in 1776. Until the Constitution of 1947, the Supreme Court was an intermediate court. As currently constituted, the court replaced the prior New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, which had been the highest court created under the Constitution of 1844." Now, the Supreme Court hears appeals from the Appellate Division and, on rare occasions, directly by order of the Court from other cases within the judicial and administrative system.

Under the two previous New Jersey state constitutions (1776 and 1844), the phrase "Supreme Court" referred to a lower court, similar to the New York Supreme Court. Both the "supreme court" and the actual highest court were composed in a radically different manner from that of the current supreme court or its inferior courts. The main difference between the versions, the composition of the court, reflects the change in jurisprudence from the colonial British concept of "Law Lords", or legislators serving part time as judges, to the current form of jurisprudence.