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 1960 / Served to 1976

Arthur D. Brennan

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Arthur D. Brennan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1993
Tenure: 1960–1976 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brennan authored 21 published opinions for the court (1960–1975), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Silinsky v. State-Wide Insurance (63 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. 26 of these were attributed to Brennan 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
1968	Silinsky v. State-Wide Insurance†	30 A.D.2d 1	63
1974	People v. Francis†	45 A.D.2d 431	31
1960	Fairchild v. Kraemer†	11 A.D.2d 232	23
1969	Figari v. New York Telephone Co.†	32 A.D.2d 434	17
1968	Gauthier v. Village of Larchmont†	30 A.D.2d 303	17
1969	People v. White†	33 A.D.2d 217	16
1967	Multari v. Glalin Arms Corp.†	28 A.D.2d 122	13
1969	Dashinsky v. Santjer†	32 A.D.2d 382	12
1972	Moreno v. Galdorisi†	39 A.D.2d 450	9
1972	Kesselbrenner v. Anonymous†	39 A.D.2d 410	7
1969	Kaplan v. Kaplan†	31 A.D.2d 247	6
1965	McGee v. Horvat†	23 A.D.2d 271	6
1961	Tyrnauer v. Travelers Insurance†	15 A.D.2d 293	6
1969	Connolly v. Board of Assessors†	32 A.D.2d 106	5
1969	Spinola v. New York Central Railroad†	33 A.D.2d 74	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Arthur D. Brennan on?: Arthur D. Brennan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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16 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).