- Term: Sept. 4, 2004 - Aug. 31, 2011
- Status: Retired
Justice Rivera-Soto was nominated by Governor James E. McGreevey on April 20, 2004 to serve on the Supreme Court. He was confirmed by the Senate June 20, 2004 and was sworn as an associate justice by Justice Virginia Long in a private ceremony on Sept. 1, 2004. He re-affirmed his oath of office on Sept. 14, 2004, at the Trenton War Memorial. Justice Rivera-Soto served on the Court until Aug. 31, 2011. At the time of his nomination, Justice Rivera-Soto was a partner at Fox Rothschild, a law firm with offices in Princeton and Philadelphia. He previously served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Caesars World, and vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Great Bay Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. .
From 1980 to 1983, he was a litigation associate at Fox Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel. From 1978 to 1980, he served as an assistant United States attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. During 1977, he interned in the office of the District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Justice Rivera-Soto was born in New York City on Nov. 10, 1953, and grew up in Puerto Rico. He graduated from Colegio Nuestra Senora Del Pilar, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, in 1970. He is a 1974 honors graduate of Haverford College, where he was the Jose Padin Scholar of his graduating class. He received his juris doctorate in 1977 from Cornell University School of Law, where he was a Charles K Burdick Scholar and a member of the Moot Coutt Board.
Justice Rivera-Soto is a certified mediator in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He also was a member and chair of the District VII Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a former member of the Please Touch Museum and New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities and Women's Enterprises boards of directors. He is a former alternate member of the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board of the State Bar of Nevada, and a former instructor of trial advocacy at Rutgers School of Law in Camden
Justice Rivera-Soto is married to the former Mary Catherine Mullaney. They have three sons.
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