C. Thomas Schettino (September 9, 1907 – March 21, 1983) was a justice of the

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from 1959 to 1972. Schettino was born in

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on September 9, 1906. He grew up in

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and attended

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. He attended

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where he was a member of

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Fraternity, and graduated from there in 1930. Schettino then received a law degree from

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in 1933. He was a member of the law department of the

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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

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. 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

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. He served the

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from 1948 to 1959. Justice Schettino was appointed to Supreme Court in 1959 by Governor

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and served until 1972, an era known as the Weintraub Court. He died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, where he lived. He is interred in

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