C. Thomas Schettino

C. Thomas Schettino (September 9, 1907 – March 21, 1983) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1959 to 1972.^[1][2]

Schettino was born in Newark on September 9, 1906. He attended East Orange High School. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1930 and received a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1933. He was a member of the law department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1936 until 1941, when he joined Rutgers as an instructor in business law.

From 1942 to 1944, he was executive clerk and secretary to Governor of New Jersey Charles Edison. He then practiced law until he was named to the Court of Errors and Appeals, the predecessor to the Supreme Court, from 1944 to 1947 before the rewriting of the Constitution of New Jersey. He served the New Jersey Superior Court from 1948 to 1959. Justice Schettino was appointed to Supreme Court in 1959 by Governor Robert B. Meyner and served until 1972, an era known as the Weintraub Court.

He died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, where he lived.

See also

• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey

References

1. "THOMAS SCHETTINO, EX-ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF TOP JERSEY COURT". The New York Times. 23 March 1983. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
2. The Honorable John W. Bissell, CHIEF JUSTICE WEINTRAUB LECTURE, April 10, 2002: "Justice Thomas Schettino Born September 9, 1906 in Newark, New Jersey, C. Thomas Schettino attended the East Orange High School and Rutgers University from which he graduated in 1930. He then enrolled in Columbia University Law School from which he graduated with his law degree in 1933. Punctuated by brief sojourns into private practice, during the ensuing fourteen years, Justice Schettino also took on several positions in public service. The first of these was his appointment to the legal staff of the Port of New York Authority as Chief New Jersey counsel. In 1941 Governor Edison ordered a probe of the New Jersey Highway Department. Mr. Schettino was selected to assist in that investigation. After completion of the probe, Governor Edison appointed Mr. Schettino Executive Clerk and Clerk of the Court of Pardons, also in 1941. Returning to private practice in 1944, where he joined John Budd and Samuel A. Larner in forming the firm Budd, Larner and Schettino, Justice Schettino accepted an appointment by Governor Driscoll to the Court of Errors and Appeals, the highest court of the State of New Jersey at that time. With the revamping of the court system under the new constitution of 1947, Justice Schettino became a member of the Superior Court of New Jersey where he served for twelve years prior to his appointment to the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1959. Despite being stricken with a debilitating illness (Parkinson's disease), and buoyed by his own courage and the support of his colleagues, Justice Schettino served on the Weintraub Court until his retirement in September 1972. He died on March 21, 1983 at the age of 76."