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 1977 / Served to 1999

Ann T. Mikoll

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Ann T. Mikoll was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–1999 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mikoll authored 1,709 published opinions for the court (1977–1999), plus 165 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Boyle v. Town of Woodstock (261 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. 1,912 of these were attributed to Mikoll 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
1999	Boyle v. Town of Woodstock†	258 A.D.2d 702	261
1999	Gaudette v. Gaudette†	262 A.D.2d 804	64
1978	People v. Hochberg†	62 A.D.2d 239	38
1995	Vetrone v. Mackin†	216 A.D.2d 839	37
1996	Davis v. Davis†	232 A.D.2d 773	33
1997	People v. Carey†	241 A.D.2d 748	32
1993	Gannon v. Johnson Scale Co.†	189 A.D.2d 1052	32
1987	Amedure v. Standard Furniture Co.· Dissent†	125 A.D.2d 170	32
1999	Rensselaer Society of Engineers v. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute†	260 A.D.2d 992	31
1994	Tambasco v. Norton Co.†	207 A.D.2d 618	31
1988	Sarafian v. Sarafian†	140 A.D.2d 801	31
1986	People v. Emmons†	123 A.D.2d 475	30
1999	Pyramid Champlain Co. v. R.P. Brosseau & Co.†	267 A.D.2d 539	29
1998	Douglass v. St. Joseph's Hospital†	246 A.D.2d 695	29
1994	People v. Parson†	209 A.D.2d 882	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,913 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 Ann T. Mikoll on?: Ann T. Mikoll was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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22 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).