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 1990 / Served to 2008

David S. Ritter

Justice, New York Appellate Division

David S. Ritter was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ritter authored 30 published opinions for the court (1991–2008), plus 18 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Estate of Ellis (271 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. 56 of these were attributed to Ritter 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
1998	In re the Estate of Ellis†	252 A.D.2d 118	271
2001	Basetti v. Nour· Dissent†	287 A.D.2d 126	119
2007	Barnett v. Schwartz†	47 A.D.3d 197	46
1994	Gordon v. Marrone†	202 A.D.2d 104	45
1999	Town of Pleasant Valley v. New York State Board of Real Property Services· Concurrence†	253 A.D.2d 8	42
2000	Eagle Insurance v. Singletary†	279 A.D.2d 56	34
2006	Kessler v. Kessler†	33 A.D.3d 42	33
2002	Couch v. County of Suffolk†	296 A.D.2d 194	32
2004	People v. Samuels· Dissent†	12 A.D.3d 695	30
2001	Colarusso v. Dunne†	286 A.D.2d 37	28
1997	Siler v. 146 Montague Associates· Concurrence†	228 A.D.2d 33	27
1992	People v. Waring· Concurrence†	183 A.D.2d 271	27
2006	Padilla v. Sansivieri†	31 A.D.3d 64	22
1992	Brands v. Urban· Dissent†	182 A.D.2d 287	21
1992	Kane v. Her-Pet Refrigeration, Inc.†	181 A.D.2d 257	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 56 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 S. Ritter on?: David S. Ritter was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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18 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).