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 2001 / Served to 2006

Barry A. Cozier

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Barry A. Cozier was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2006 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cozier authored 13 published opinions for the court (2001–2005). Most cited: Westchester County Department of Social Services v. Robert W.R. (142 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. 13 of these were attributed to Cozier 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
2005	Westchester County Department of Social Services v. Robert W.R.†	25 A.D.3d 62	142
2001	Balsamo v. City of New York†	287 A.D.2d 22	28
2004	People v. Rubendall†	4 A.D.3d 13	23
2005	R.A.C. Group, Inc. v. Board of Education†	21 A.D.3d 243	13
2005	Nyack Hospital v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.†	27 A.D.3d 96	11
2002	Peterkin v. City of New York†	293 A.D.2d 244	11
2002	Falk v. Inzinna†	299 A.D.2d 120	6
2002	Scannapieco v. City of New York†	298 A.D.2d 81	5
2001	McCormack v. County of Westchester†	286 A.D.2d 24	4
2005	Dudek v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority†	24 A.D.3d 21	1
2004	People ex rel. Hinspeter v. Senkowski†	12 A.D.3d 23	1
2005	New York City Transit Authority v. New York State Public Employment Relations Board†	27 A.D.3d 11	0
2001	Unigard Insurance Group v. State†	286 A.D.2d 58	0

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 Barry A. Cozier on?: Barry A. Cozier was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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5 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).