- Term: Oct. 2, 2024 - Current
Justice John Jay Hoffman was nominated as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court by Gov, Phil Murphy and was sworn in on Oct. 2, 2024.
Born in New Brunswick in 1965, Justice Hoffman was raised in Middlesex County. He graduated from Colgate University and Duke University School of Law and served as a law clerk to Judge Al Engel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
At the time of his appointment, Justice Hoffman was general counsel and senior vice president at Rutgers University, where he served as the state university’s chief legal officer.
Prior to that, Justice Hoffman served as acting attorney general of New Jersey from June 2013 to March 2016.
Justice Hoffman began his legal career as an associate at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. He joined the U.S. Department of Justice in 1996 as a trial attorney in the civil division before moving to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Trenton in 2005. Justice Hoffman then served as director of investigations at the New Jersey Comptroller's Office, starting in 2010.
Justice Hoffman and his wife have a son and a daughter.