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 1985 / Served to 2005

Betty Weinberg Ellerin

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Betty Weinberg Ellerin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1985–2005 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ellerin authored 99 published opinions for the court (1985–2005), plus 41 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: V.C. v. H.C. (253 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. 149 of these were attributed to Ellerin 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
1999	V.C. v. H.C.†	257 A.D.2d 27	253
1999	Correia v. Professional Data Management, Inc.†	259 A.D.2d 60	150
1985	Trustees of Columbia University v. Mitchell/Giurgola Associates†	109 A.D.2d 449	129
1987	Blye v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority· Dissent†	124 A.D.2d 106	69
1991	People v. Carthrens†	171 A.D.2d 387	65
2005	Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc. v. Royal Surplus Lines Insurance†	27 A.D.3d 84	58
2001	Johnson v. Sam Minskoff & Sons, Inc.†	287 A.D.2d 233	56
2004	Solomon v. Bell Atlantic Corp.†	9 A.D.3d 49	55
2000	Marinelli Associates v. Helmsley-Noyes Co.†	265 A.D.2d 1	54
1992	Lancaster v. Colonial Motor Freight Line, Inc.†	177 A.D.2d 152	54
1988	Cier Industries Co. v. Hessen†	136 A.D.2d 145	53
1999	Johnson v. New York City Police Department†	258 A.D.2d 343	47
1993	Sogg v. American Airlines Inc.†	193 A.D.2d 153	47
1993	Acevedo v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.†	189 A.D.2d 497	45
1996	Marine Midland Bank, N. A. v. United Missouri Bank†	223 A.D.2d 119	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 150 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 Betty Weinberg Ellerin on?: Betty Weinberg Ellerin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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20 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).