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 2008 / Served to 2012

Ariel E. Belen

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Ariel E. Belen was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008–2012 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Belen authored 14 published opinions for the court (2008–2012), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Rivers v. Birnbaum (94 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. 20 of these were attributed to Belen 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
2012	Rivers v. Birnbaum†	102 A.D.3d 26	94
2011	Dempster v. Liotti†	86 A.D.3d 169	70
2010	Katz v. Marra· Dissent†	74 A.D.3d 888	54
2008	People v. Glenn· Dissent†	53 A.D.3d 622	28
2012	People v. Aveni†	100 A.D.3d 228	26
2009	Diarassouba v. Urban†	71 A.D.3d 51	26
2011	In re Lucinda R.†	85 A.D.3d 78	21
2009	Argyle Realty Associates v. New York State Division of Human Rights†	65 A.D.3d 273	20
2010	Chwick v. Mulvey†	81 A.D.3d 161	18
2011	In re the Estate of Murray†	84 A.D.3d 106	17
2010	LI Equity Network, LLC v. Village in Woods Owners Corp.†	79 A.D.3d 26	15
2009	People v. Moore· Dissent†	66 A.D.3d 707	13
2010	People v. Walker†	78 A.D.3d 63	10
2011	People v. McPherson· Dissent†	89 A.D.3d 752	5
2010	People v. Quinto†	77 A.D.3d 76	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Ariel E. Belen on?: Ariel E. Belen was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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4 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).