The 40-member New Jersey Senate approved the nomination of Andrea Sullivan, a Middlesex County litigator who has spent the last three decades at Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis in Iselin, to the Superior Court on Thursday.

The Senate approved the nomination by a 39-1 vote just after 3 p.m. at the Statehouse. Sullivan sat in the gallery and watched the voting board light up to clear her nomination at exactly 3:12 p.m.