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 1994 / Served to 2012

Anita R. Florio

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Anita R. Florio was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2012 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Florio authored 12 published opinions for the court (1994–2012), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Fontanetta v. John Doe 1 (509 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. 16 of these were attributed to Florio 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
2010	Fontanetta v. John Doe 1†	73 A.D.3d 78	509
2006	Cruz v. McAneney†	31 A.D.3d 54	54
2010	First National Bank of Chicago v. Silver†	73 A.D.3d 162	47
1996	Hecht v. Kaplan†	221 A.D.2d 100	22
2000	Hafkin v. North Shore University Hospital· Dissent†	279 A.D.2d 86	17
2006	Briffel v. County of Nassau†	31 A.D.3d 79	12
1998	Elkin v. Cassarino†	248 A.D.2d 35	12
2000	People v. Vernace· Dissent†	274 A.D.2d 595	7
1994	Huston v. Hayden Building Maintenance Corp.†	205 A.D.2d 68	7
2012	G3-Purves Street, LLC v. Thomson Purves, LLC†	101 A.D.3d 37	3
1997	Pakistan Arts & Entertainment Corp. v. Pakistan International Airlines Corp.†	232 A.D.2d 29	3
2000	Brady v. Department of Motor Vehicles· Dissent†	278 A.D.2d 233	2
1995	Sferrazza v. Bergdorf Goodman, Inc.†	213 A.D.2d 44	2
1998	Commissioner of Social Services v. Keith H.· Dissent†	253 A.D.2d 815	1
2012	G3-Purves Street, LLC v. Thomson Purves, LLC†	101 A.D.3d 37	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Anita R. Florio on?: Anita R. Florio was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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18 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).