Jaynee LaVecchia

Jaynee LaVecchia (born October 9, 1954) is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

As director, she was responsible for the legal work of all lawyers assigned to the civil side of the New Jersey Attorney ’s Office.

[4] LaVecchia was nominated by Governor Christine Todd Whitman to serve on the Supreme Court on December 24, 1999.

[6] She has chaired or served on various Supreme Court Committees, subcommittees, and other Court-assigned projects.

In August 2020, LaVecchia wrote for the dissenters when a narrow majority found that the constitutional right against self-incrimination did not prevent a police officer from being compelled to provide the passcodes to iPhones he was accused of using to provide tip-offs to a drug trafficker.