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 1992 / Served to 1998

David O. Boehm

Justice, New York Appellate Division

David O. Boehm was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1998 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boehm authored 35 published opinions for the court (1992–1998), plus 9 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Rohring v. City of Niagara Falls (35 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. 45 of these were attributed to Boehm 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
1993	Rohring v. City of Niagara Falls†	192 A.D.2d 228	35
1995	Wallace v. Parks Corp.†	212 A.D.2d 132	28
1996	Mobil Oil Corp. v. City of Syracuse Industrial Development Agency†	224 A.D.2d 15	24
1998	Lynda A. H. v. Diane T. O.†	243 A.D.2d 24	22
1995	Sun Co. v. City of Syracuse Industrial Development Agency†	209 A.D.2d 34	22
1996	Duffy v. County of Chautauqua†	225 A.D.2d 261	19
1997	Blake v. Syck†	230 A.D.2d 596	16
1998	Bennett Road Sewer Co. v. Town Board of Town of Camillus†	243 A.D.2d 61	15
1996	People v. Roach†	226 A.D.2d 55	15
1993	Swartzenberg v. Trivedi†	189 A.D.2d 151	15
1998	Ortiz v. New York State Board of Parole†	239 A.D.2d 52	13
1998	Albert v. Solimon†	252 A.D.2d 139	12
1996	Time Square Books, Inc. v. City of Rochester· Dissent†	223 A.D.2d 270	12
1993	People v. Quarles†	187 A.D.2d 200	12
1998	Adams v. North-Star Construction Co.· Concurrence†	249 A.D.2d 1001	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 David O. Boehm on?: David O. Boehm was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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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).