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The Hon. John J. Gibbons
The Honorable John Gibbons is a Director of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., a member of the firm's Litigation Department, head of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Group, and founder of the Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law. For his successful challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court of the American government's indefinite detention of foreign nationals at Guantanamo Bay, the New Jersey Law Journal named him 2004 Lawyer of the Year.
John Gibbons was formerly Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, and a member of that Court for 20 years (1970-1990). While serving on the Court of Appeals, Judge Gibbons authored approximately 800 published opinions. He was also formerly a professor of Constitutional Law and other subjects at Seton Hall University Law School, where he held the Richard J. Hughes Chair in Constitutional Law until June of 1997.
He is a Past President of the New Jersey State Bar Association, a Life Member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is a former member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association and a former Chair of its Committee on Fair Trial and Free Press, and also a former Director of the American Arbitration Association. Judge Gibbons is also a Trustee Emeritus of the Practicing Law Institute, a Trustee Emeritus of Holy Cross College, and a Trustee of The Fund for New Jersey.
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