John E. Wallace, Jr.

John E. Wallace, Jr. is an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and was nominated on April 12, 2003.

Biography

John Wallace, Jr. was born in 1942 in Pitman, New Jersey. He received a B.A. from the University of Delaware in 1964 and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1967. He served in the United States Army from 1968 and reached the rank of Captain before leaving the army in 1970.

Wallace was a member of many bars, including the Gloucester and Camden County Bar Associations, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Garden State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the National Bar Assoction. He has also actively served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Task Force for Minority Concerns, the New Jersey Ethics Commission, the Judiciary Advisory committee on Americans with Disabilities Act, the supreme Court Sepecial Committee on Matrimonial Litigation, and the Appellate Division Rules Committee. He was also the chairman of the Supreme Court Ad Hoc Copmmittee on Admissions.

Wallace was a partner in the law firm of Atkinson, Myers, Archie & Wallace. He also served in that time period as the Municipal Judge for Washington Township. When he was nominated, Wallace's career was as a New Jersey Superior Court Judge (Appellate Division), a position which he held since 1984.

Wallace was nominated by Governor of New Jersey James E. McGreevey on April 12, 2003, to serve as a justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on May 19, 2003. He was officially sworn in as an Associate Justice by the Chief Justice, Deborah T. Poritz, in a private ceremony held on the May 20, 2003.

Justice Wallace lives in Sewell with his wife Barbara and their five children.

Honors

Justice Wallace holds several honors from certain legal organizations. These include the Orient of New Jersey Dedicated Service Award from the Valley of Camden (awarded in 2000), the Washington Township Board of Education Appreciation Award (awarded in 2000), Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey (awarded in 2001), and the Van J. Clinton award from the Garden State Bar Association (awarded in 2002).

External links

* [http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/supreme/jwallace.htm Justice John E. Wallace, Jr.]