- Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz Biographynjcourts.gov › public › supreme court virtual museum › meet the justices… Deborah Poritz took the most unlikely of routes to become the first female Chief Justice of New Jersey’s Supreme … public and private indicia is public. … E. … The Court revisited the Public Trust doctrine in Raleigh Avenue Beach … successful programs for backlog reduction, the adoption of best practices, and for increased diversity within the …