Background
HOENS, HELEN was born on July 31, 1954 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States.
lawyer New Jersey Superior Court
HOENS, HELEN was born on July 31, 1954 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States.
College of William & Mary (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1976). Georgetown University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1979). Special Project Editor, Georgetown Law Journal, 1978-1979.
Law Clerk, Honorary John Jay Gibbons, United States.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1979-1980.
She was nominated to the Supreme Court by Governor Jon South. Corzine on September 21, 2006. She was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on October 23 and sworn into office on October 26, 2006. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from the College of William and Mary, graduating with high honors, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
Upon graduation, she served as a law clerk to Judge John Joseph Gibbons during his service on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before embarking on a career in private practice.
After her clerkship, Justice Hoens worked in private practice, first at Dewey Ballantine and with the Law Office of Russel H. Beatie, Junior. in New New York Justice Hoens was appointed to the Superior Court in 1994 by Governor Christine Todd Whitman, and reappointed by Governor Donald DiFrancesco in 2001.
She was elevated to the Appellate Division in August, 2002 by Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz. In 2006 she was appointed to fill the anticipated vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the elevation of then-Associate Justice James R. Zazzali to replace Poritz as Chief Justice.
On August 12, 2013, Governor Chris Christie announced that he would not renominate Justice Helen Hoens for lifetime appointment to the state"s Supreme Court.
She is the second Justice of the Supreme Court to be denied tenure in more than 66 years since the adoption of the 1947 State Constitution. Her non-reappointment is a result of the impasse between Republican Governor Chris Christie and the Democratic State Senate over the Supreme Court appointments. Christie said he wished to spare Hoens a Senate hearing in which she would be denied reappointment.
Hoens is identified as a Republican, as is Government.
Christie. His nominee for her replacement, Cuban-American Faustino Fernandez-Vina, is also identified as a Republican, but was approved by the State Senate. 2008-2009 Term
Bosland v.
Warnock Dodge, Incorporated.
Czar, Incorporated. v. Jo Anne Heath
Riya Finnegan Limited Liability Company v.
Township Council of South Brunswick
2007-2008 Term
Brundage v.
Carambio
Cicchetti v. Morris County Sheriff" General’ s Office
Cruz v. Central Jersey Landscaping, Incorporated.
International Maritime Organization the Estate of Madeleine Stockdale
International Maritime Organization Russell T. Kivler
In re the Contest of November
8, 2005 General Election for the Office of Mayor of the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills
New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v.
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
Pizullo v. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company
State v.
Chun
Reilly v. American Automobile Association Mid-Atlantic Insurance Company
Tartaglia v.
Union Bank of Switzerland PaineWebber, Incorporated.
2006-2007 Term
Carter v. Township of Bordentown
In re Lead Paint Litigation
Liguori v.
Elmann
Pascack Valley Regional High School Board of Education v. Pascack Valley Regional Support Staff Association
Roberts v.
Division of State Police
State v.
Drury
State v. Figueroa
Thurber v. City of Burlington.
October 26, 2013 was her last day as a sitting member of the Court. While at Georgetown, she served on the Georgetown Law Journal, first as a member of the staff and then as the editor of the journal’s annual volume devoted to developments in criminal procedure in the federal circuit courts.