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 1975 / Served to 1981

Charles Margett

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Charles Margett was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1997
Tenure: 1975–1981 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Margett authored 30 published opinions for the court (1964–1981), plus 11 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Friar v. Vanguard Holding Corp. (122 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. 42 of these were attributed to Margett 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
1980	Friar v. Vanguard Holding Corp.· Concurrence†	78 A.D.2d 83	122
1978	In re Estate of Friedman†	64 A.D.2d 70	91
1977	People v. Leonard†	59 A.D.2d 1	64
1979	People v. Brnja· Dissent†	70 A.D.2d 17	60
1978	Strauss v. Long Island Sports, Inc.†	60 A.D.2d 501	51
1981	People v. Thompson†	79 A.D.2d 87	50
1978	People v. Santiago†	62 A.D.2d 572	36
1977	People v. Leichtweis†	59 A.D.2d 383	32
1975	Julien J. Studley, Inc. v. Lefrak†	50 A.D.2d 162	30
1976	Putnam Armonk, Inc. v. Town of Southeast†	52 A.D.2d 10	28
1977	Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc. v. Amerada Hess Corp.†	59 A.D.2d 110	27
1981	Nilsa B.B. v. Blackwell†	84 A.D.2d 295	24
1979	Federal Deposit Insurance v. Hyer†	66 A.D.2d 521	24
1981	Feinberg v. Saks & Co.· Concurrence†	83 A.D.2d 952	20
1976	Quaglia v. Incorporated Village of Munsey Park†	54 A.D.2d 434	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 Margett on?: Charles Margett was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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6 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).