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 2005 / Active

Bernard J. Malone Jr.

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Bernard J. Malone Jr. is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Malone authored 581 published opinions for the court (2006–2012), plus 15 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Rich-Wolfe v. Wolfe (250 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. 599 of these were attributed to Malone 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
2011	Rich-Wolfe v. Wolfe†	83 A.D.3d 1359	250
2009	Clearmont Property, LLC v. Eisner†	58 A.D.3d 1052	66
2009	Mark T. v. Joyanna U.†	64 A.D.3d 1092	36
2008	Schlanger v. Doe†	53 A.D.3d 827	36
2008	People v. Packer· Dissent†	49 A.D.3d 184	35
2010	People v. Brown†	75 A.D.3d 655	32
2008	People v. Phillips†	55 A.D.3d 1145	32
2010	People v. Robinson†	72 A.D.3d 1277	31
2009	Zwack v. Kosier†	61 A.D.3d 1020	30
2009	Rite Aid v. Assessor of the Town of Colonie†	58 A.D.3d 963	30
2006	C/S 12th Avenue LLC v. City of New York†	32 A.D.3d 1	30
2009	People v. Black†	65 A.D.3d 811	29
2009	People v. Shofkom†	63 A.D.3d 1286	29
2011	MacMillan v. Cleveland· Concurrence†	82 A.D.3d 1388	28
2010	State v. Richard VV.†	74 A.D.3d 1402	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 599 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 is Bernard J. Malone Jr. on?: Bernard J. Malone Jr. is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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21 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).