Rachel Wainer Apter (born July 22, 1980)[2] is an American lawyer who serves as a justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
[4][5][6] After law school, Wainer Apter clerked for Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then for Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
[3][4] Wainer Apter then worked in the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe and as an attorney at the ACLU in New York.
[7] While working at the New Jersey Attorney General office, Wainer Apter led a team that sought to uphold the DACA program.
[8] On March 15, 2021, Governor Phil Murphy nominated Wainer Apter to be a justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.