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 1984 / Served to 1995

Charles B. Lawrence

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Charles B. Lawrence was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–1995
Tenure: 1984–1995 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lawrence authored 30 published opinions for the court (1984–1995), plus 23 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Medina (28 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. 62 of these were attributed to Lawrence 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
1985	People v. Medina†	107 A.D.2d 302	28
1990	World Trade Knitting Mills, Inc. v. Lido Knitting Mills, Inc.· Concurrence†	154 A.D.2d 99	25
1990	People v. Greene†	153 A.D.2d 439	25
1988	People v. Stephens· Dissent†	143 A.D.2d 692	25
1988	Santangelo v. Raskin†	137 A.D.2d 74	23
1992	Pierre-Louis v. Ching-Yuan Hwa†	182 A.D.2d 55	22
1992	Brands v. Urban†	182 A.D.2d 287	21
1991	Policastro v. Savarese· Concurrence†	171 A.D.2d 849	21
1991	People v. Garrett†	171 A.D.2d 153	19
1994	People v. Khan†	200 A.D.2d 129	18
1984	Knight v. Long Island College Hospital· Dissent†	106 A.D.2d 371	18
1993	People v. Huurre†	193 A.D.2d 305	15
1991	People v. Lumpkin· Concurrence†	173 A.D.2d 738	15
1985	People v. Tabarez· Concurrence†	113 A.D.2d 461	15
1993	Koppel v. Hebrew Academy of Five Towns· Dissent†	191 A.D.2d 415	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Charles B. Lawrence on?: Charles B. Lawrence was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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11 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).