Hon. Haekyoung Suh is a judge for the Somerset/Hunterdon/Warren County Superior Court (Vicinage 13) in New Jersey. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Chris Christie in 2016.
During her judicial tenure, Suh has held an assignment in the Family Division in Somerset County since 2016 and briefly sat in the Warren County Family Division during that same year. She was named presiding judge of Somerset County’s Family Division in 2020.
Over the course of her legal career, Suh practiced as an attorney at the Somerville law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. Her areas of practice included litigation, products liability defense, appellate practice, franchise law, and pharmaceutical and medical devices.
Suh received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1991. She went on to complete a J.D. at Rutgers Law School in 1997. While a law student, Suh was the articles editor for the Rutgers Law Review.
After graduating from law school, she began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. William A. Dreier, presiding judge of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court (1997 to 1998).
Her memberships have included the Hunterdon County Bar Association, the Somerset County Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the New Jersey Defense Association, and the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey.
Suh has sat as a member of the Hunterdon County Bar Association’s Civil Practice Committee and Law Day Committee, the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, and the New Jersey Defense Association’s Products Liability Committee. She also spent time as a member of the Hunterdon County Board of Trustees.
Suh was a speaker for the Hunterdon County Bar Association’s Law Day Celebration, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the New Jersey Bar Association’s Products Liability and Toxic Tort Section.
At the time of her appointment, she was residing in Flemington.