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 1969 / Served to 1982

Arthur Markewich

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Arthur Markewich was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1993
Tenure: 1969–1982 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Markewich authored 23 published opinions for the court (1969–1982), plus 14 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Imero Fiorentino Associates, Inc. v. Green (39 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. 49 of these were attributed to Markewich 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
1982	Imero Fiorentino Associates, Inc. v. Green· Dissent†	85 A.D.2d 419	39
1977	People v. Cwikla· Concurrence†	60 A.D.2d 40	27
1982	Springer v. Viking Press	90 A.D.2d 315	23
1970	Rios v. Rios· Dissent†	34 A.D.2d 325	20
1979	People v. Parker· Concurrence†	70 A.D.2d 387	19
1979	People v. Andriani†	67 A.D.2d 20	18
1980	People v. Palumbo· Dissent†	79 A.D.2d 518	14
1978	Minton v. Domb· Concurrence†	63 A.D.2d 36	14
1977	Franchina v. Codd†	57 A.D.2d 394	11
1979	People v. Hardin· Concurrence†	67 A.D.2d 12	10
1977	Di Giacomo v. City of New York· Concurrence†	58 A.D.2d 347	9
1981	People v. Long· Concurrence†	81 A.D.2d 521	8
1981	People v. Alba†	81 A.D.2d 345	6
1981	Stillman v. Stillman†	80 A.D.2d 356	6
1981	People v. Lieberman· Concurrence†	79 A.D.2d 175	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 Markewich on?: Arthur Markewich was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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13 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).