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 1996 / Served to 2008

Anthony J. Carpinello

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Anthony J. Carpinello was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–2008 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carpinello authored 1,592 published opinions for the court (1996–2008), plus 23 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Hawkes v. Catatonk Golf Club, Inc. (263 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. 1,631 of these were attributed to Carpinello 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	Hawkes v. Catatonk Golf Club, Inc.†	288 A.D.2d 528	263
2005	Travis v. United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.†	23 A.D.3d 884	256
2005	People v. Torres†	19 A.D.3d 732	255
2004	People v. Romeo†	9 A.D.3d 744	163
2006	Williams v. Williams†	35 A.D.3d 1098	148
1999	Coates v. Kraft Foods, Inc.†	263 A.D.2d 734	132
2000	Edmonds v. Quellman†	277 A.D.2d 579	107
1996	In re Kathleen OO.†	232 A.D.2d 784	58
2000	Harper v. McCall†	277 A.D.2d 589	50
2005	People v. Nickel· Concurrence†	14 A.D.3d 869	45
2004	Postlethwaite v. United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.†	5 A.D.3d 892	41
1996	In re James HH.†	234 A.D.2d 783	38
1999	Maas v. Cornell University†	253 A.D.2d 1	37
2003	Allen v. Mastrianni†	2 A.D.3d 1023	35
2000	Valentino v. Davis†	270 A.D.2d 635	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,631 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 J. Carpinello on?: Anthony J. Carpinello was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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12 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).