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 1979 / Served to 1997

David Ross

Justice, New York Appellate Division

David Ross was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–1997
Tenure: 1979–1997 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ross authored 118 published opinions for the court (1979–1996), plus 41 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Nova (206 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. 167 of these were attributed to Ross 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
1994	People v. Nova†	206 A.D.2d 132	206
1983	People v. Siu Wah Tse†	91 A.D.2d 350	56
1993	Frisch v. Bellmarc Management, Inc.†	190 A.D.2d 383	50
1987	Mars Associates, Inc. v. New York City Educational Construction Fund†	126 A.D.2d 178	48
1982	People v. Dowdell†	88 A.D.2d 239	42
1981	Conrad v. Third Sutton Realty Co.†	81 A.D.2d 50	41
1992	Clarke v. New York City Transit Authority†	174 A.D.2d 268	40
1991	Prudential Insurance v. Dewey†	170 A.D.2d 108	38
1983	Coalition Against Lincoln West, Inc. v. City of New York†	94 A.D.2d 483	32
1990	Woodrow v. Colt Industries, Inc.†	155 A.D.2d 154	31
1982	Liebeskind v. Liebeskind†	86 A.D.2d 207	31
1979	People v. Cavallerio†	71 A.D.2d 338	31
1995	People v. Vasquez†	214 A.D.2d 93	30
1987	Boggs v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.†	132 A.D.2d 340	27
1987	Faillace v. Port Authority†	130 A.D.2d 34	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 169 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 Ross on?: David Ross 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).