Jersey Justice

Hand-picked by Governor Charles Edison in January, Frederic R. Colie '18, Newark lawyer and resident of Millburn, took the oath on February 4 as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court and the State Court of Appeals. Colie was appointed upon the retirement of Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who won fame and the praise of the American Bar Association for his judicial conduct in presiding over the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the Lindbergh baby slaying.

The new Justice, a Republican, has been inactive in politics and his selection has been hailed as Governor Edison's first step in his pledge to seek out men who would restore "Jersey justice" to the pedestal it once enjoyed. Justice Colie studied for the bar at New York University and the New Jersey Law School, was admitted in 1922, and became a counselor in 1925. He will preside over the judicial area of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem Counties.