Associate Justice Nathan L. Jacobs

Justice Jacobs was born Feb. 28. 1905, attended elementary schools at Bayonne, received B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925. LL.B. Magna cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1928 and S. J. D. from Harvard Law School in 1931. Admitted the New Jersey Bar as attorney in 1928 and as counsellor in 1981. Associate and Note Editor of Harvard Law Review (1926-1928) and holder of Sears Prize (1927) and Judah P. Benjamin Fellowship (1930-1981). Practiced law with Arthur T. Vanderbilt from 1928 to 1934 and as a member of Frazer. Stoffer & Jacobs. 744 Broad St., Newark, from 1934 to 1948. Chief Deputy Commissioner and counsel to D. Frederick Burnett, State Commissioner of Alcoholic Beverage Control from 1934 to 1939. State Attorney and District Enforcement Attorney of the Office of Price Administration, Newark, from 1942 to 1945. Professor of Administrative Law at Rutgers University Law School (and predecessors) from 1929 to 1948. Chairman, State Arbitration Board, Bell Telephone Company-Telephone Workers Union of New Jersey (1947); Delegate and Vice-Chairman of Judiciary Committee New Jersey Constitutional Convention (1947); Chairman. Advisory Council of Institute Of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University (1947- 1948). Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court (1948) ; Senior Judge, Appellate Division, New Jersey Superior Court from 1948 to 1952. He was a member of the American Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association and Essex County Bar Association. Justice Jacobs was appointed to the old Supreme Court by Governor Driscoll to succeed the late Justice Parker and upon reorganization of the New Jersey Courts was assigned to Part A of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court. He was appointed to the present Supreme Court in March 1952, to succeed Justice Case, who retired. Justice Jacobs, a Livingston, resident, retired from the Court on Feb. 27, 1975. He died on Jan. 25, 1989, at the age of 84.

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