How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1976 / Served to 1993

A Franklin Mahoney

Justice, New York Appellate Division

A Franklin Mahoney was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1994
Tenure: 1976–1993 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mahoney authored 1,078 published opinions for the court (1978–1993), plus 45 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Cruickshank (161 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 1,156 of these were attributed to Mahoney by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1985	People v. Cruickshank†	105 A.D.2d 325	161
1990	New York State Office of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities v. New York State Division of Human Rights†	164 A.D.2d 208	149
1986	Mesick v. State†	118 A.D.2d 214	78
1992	Van Hoesen v. Van Hoesen†	186 A.D.2d 903	53
1985	Beuschel v. Malm†	114 A.D.2d 569	50
1993	In re the Estate of Schnare†	191 A.D.2d 859	43
1981	Zandri Construction Co. v. Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark†	81 A.D.2d 106	43
1993	In re Amanda LL.†	195 A.D.2d 708	39
1983	Shattenkirk v. Finnerty†	97 A.D.2d 51	38
1992	Bowie v. Bowie†	182 A.D.2d 1049	37
1985	Burgos v. Coughlin†	108 A.D.2d 194	37
1991	General Electric Technical Services Co. v. Clinton†	173 A.D.2d 86	36
1993	Daniel R. v. Noel R.†	195 A.D.2d 704	35
1993	Shultis v. Woodstock Land Development Associates†	195 A.D.2d 677	34
1983	People v. West· Dissent†	92 A.D.2d 620	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,156 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was A Franklin Mahoney on?: A Franklin Mahoney was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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17 years on the New York Appellate Division. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).