How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1941 / Served to 1966

Charles S. Desmond

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Charles S. Desmond was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1987
Tenure: 1941–1966 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Canisius College

Judicial Record

In our data, Desmond authored 469 published opinions for the court (1941–1966), plus 271 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Huntley (908 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. 548 of these were attributed to Desmond 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
1965	People v. Huntley†	15 N.Y.2d 72	908
1965	Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc.· Concurrence†	15 N.Y.2d 443	557
1951	Woods v. Lancet†	303 N.Y. 349	477
1948	Noseworthy v. City of New York	80 N.E.2d 744	441
1960	Weiss v. Fote· Dissent†	7 N.Y.2d 579	416
1962	Borgia v. City of New York†	12 N.Y.2d 151	331
1955	People v. Salemi· Dissent†	309 N.Y. 208	243
1959	People v. Marks· Dissent†	6 N.Y.2d 67	236
1951	People v. Richetti†	302 N.Y. 290	232
1956	Defiance Milk Products Co. v. Du Mond†	309 N.Y. 537	229
1955	People v. Hildebrandt†	308 N.Y. 397	221
1958	Schuster v. City of New York· Dissent†	5 N.Y.2d 75	218
1959	Shapiro v. Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York†	7 N.Y.2d 56	207
1957	In re the Accounting of United States Trust Co.· Dissent†	2 N.Y.2d 236	203
1966	Seider v. Roth†	17 N.Y.2d 111	197

Showing the 15 most-cited of 782 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Charles S. Desmond on?: Charles S. Desmond was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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25 years on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).