Stewart G. Pollock

Stewart G. Pollock (born 1933) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1999.

A New Jersey native, Pollock was born in East Orange and raised in Brookside. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1954. He received his J.D. in 1957 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden scholar, and his master of laws degree from the University of Virginia in 1988 (nearly a decade after his appointment to the court).

Pollock began his legal career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Newark in 1958, and in 1960 went into private practice at Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti in Morristown. In 1974, he reentered public service as a commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities and two years later became a member of the State Commission of Investigation. From 1978 until 1979 was counsel to Governor of New Jersey Brendan T. Byrne.

Byrne nominated him to the Supreme Court. He took his oath on June 28, 1979 and was reconfirmed with life tenure in 1986. He continued his career as a lawyer well after retiring at the age of 66 (before the mandatory retirement age of 70). He was seated on the court when it made landmark decisions on school funding (Abbott v. Burke) and exclusionary zoning (the Mount Laurel decisions).