- Term: Feb. 24, 1959 - March 31, 1975
- Status: Deceased - July 7, 1984
Frederick W. Hall was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Feb. 22, 1908. He attended the public schools of Neshanic and Bound Brook. He was a graduate of Rutgers University, Litt.B. 192S, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received the degree of LL.B. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1931. Justice Hall was admitted to practice as an attorney October 1932 and as a counsellor October 1936. He practiced in Newark with Arthur T. Vanderbilt until 1941, and in that year became a member of the firm of Wharton & Hall in Somerville, which firm later became Wharton, Hall, Stewart & Halpern. In December 1953, he was appointed a Superior Court Judge and served as assignment judge of several counties, He became an associate justice of the Supreme Court in March 1959, by appointment of Governor Meyner to succeed Justice Wachenfeld.
He formerly served on the Board of Managers of New Jersey State Village for Epileptics and as president of the Bound Brook Board of Education. He was a member of the American Bar Association; New Jersey State Bar Association; Somerset Bar Association and American Judicature Society. Justice Hall retired from the Court on March 31, 1975. He died on July 7, 1984, at the age of 76.
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