Mary Catherine Cuff (born August 28, 1947) is a former acting justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (Judge of the Appellate Division, Temporarily Assigned to the Supreme Court) who served between 2012 and 2016.[1] [2] [3]
Cuff was born in Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from Rosemont College in 1969 and received her law degree from Rutgers School of Law – Newark in 1973. She was an associate at Waters, McPherson, McNeill in Secaucus from 1986 to 1988.[4]
Cuff was a deputy attorney general and special assistant to the state treasurer from 1974 to 1978. She was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1978 to 1985.
A resident of Brielle, New Jersey, Cuff served on the New Jersey Superior Court sitting in Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth County from 1988 to 1994, including the Appellate Division.[5] [6] Cuff was assigned to the New Jersey Supreme Court by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner in 2012 during a period of conflict between the Christie administration and the New Jersey Senate about the composition of the court and served until 2016 when Walter F. Timpone was confirmed.[7] [8]