Associate Justice Stewart G. Pollock

Justice Pollock was a commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities and a member of the governor's cabinet from 1974 until 1976, when he was appointed a member of the State Commission of Investigation. He served as counsel to Governor Brendan T. Byrne from February 1978 to June 1979. A trustee of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1976, he was an associate editor of the New Jersey Law Journal from 1971 until his appointment to the Supreme Court. Governor Byrne announced Justice Pollock's appointment to the Supreme Court on March 16, 1979. The Senate confirmed the nomination on April 23, and Mr. Pollock took his oath on June 28, 1979. Justice Pollock retired from the Court on Aug. 31, 1999.

Justice Pollock received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hamilton College, which later awarded him an honorary doctorate, a Ll.B from New York University Law School, where he later served on the board of trustees of the Law Center Foundation, and a Ll.M from the University of Virginia.

He served as chairman of the Appellate Judge’s Conference of the American Bar Association.

He chaired the Supreme Court Committee on the Professional Rules of Responsibility, the Court’s Commission on the Rules of Professional Conduct, and its Commission on the History of the New Jersey Judiciary, He also served on the Advisory Committee for the Restatement of Law Governing Lawyers of the American Law Institute

Justice Pollock has been president of the Morris County Bar Association and a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association. He has also served as counsel for the Morris County Unit of the New Jersey Association for Retarded Children and was a member of the Morris County Republican Committee. He had four children with his late wife.

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