Alan B. Handler

Alan B. Handler (born July 20, 1931) served as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1977 until 1999. Handler was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1931. He attended Newark Academy and then Princeton University, graduating with a B.A. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1953. After receiving an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1956, he entered private legal practice in Newark. Handler served in the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General as First Assistant Attorney General from 1961 until 1964 and as First Assistant Attorney General from 1964 to 1968. He was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1968 by Governor Richard J. Hughes. He was assigned to the Appellate Division in...