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 1993 / Served to 2011

Anthony V. Cardona

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Anthony V. Cardona was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2011 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cardona authored 1,841 published opinions for the court (1993–2011), plus 28 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: McNeary v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. (264 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. 1,876 of these were attributed to Cardona 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
2001	McNeary v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.†	286 A.D.2d 522	264
2002	People v. Elliot†	299 A.D.2d 731	260
2006	Carson v. Dudley†	25 A.D.3d 983	256
2000	Smith v. Smith†	277 A.D.2d 531	250
2009	People v. Davis†	58 A.D.3d 896	149
2007	Board of Education of New Paltz Central School District v. Donaldson†	41 A.D.3d 1138	144
1999	Glens Falls Newspapers, Inc. v. Counties of Warren & Washington Industrial Development Agency†	257 A.D.2d 948	108
1998	Baraby v. Baraby†	250 A.D.2d 201	74
2006	People v. Wlasiuk†	32 A.D.3d 674	63
2005	Anson v. Anson†	20 A.D.3d 603	54
1997	De Losh v. De Losh†	235 A.D.2d 851	54
1999	People v. White†	261 A.D.2d 653	50
1997	Tankersley v. Szesnat†	235 A.D.2d 1010	48
1996	People v. Berezansky†	229 A.D.2d 768	47
1995	People v. Parker†	220 A.D.2d 815	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,876 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 Anthony V. Cardona on?: Anthony V. Cardona was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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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).