For years, attorneys in New Jersey have been aware of, and appreciate, the unique nature of the New Jersey Judiciary under the 1947 Constitution.

That respected uniqueness stems primarily from the fact that judges are not elected,  the Supreme Court has its own exclusive rule making authority over practice and procedure as well as administration of the courts, and the Chief Justice is administrative head of the Judiciary with unique and exclusive individual authority to assign judges in a manner which he or she thinks will best benefit the needs of the system. Some attorneys may not know, more than 70 years after the adoption of the 1947 Constitution, that one of the principal architects of title VI of the Constitution regarding the Judiciary was Arthur T. Vanderbilt, dean of the NYU School of Law who became the first Chief Justice under the Constitution.