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 2006 / Active

E Michael Kavanagh

Justice, New York Appellate Division

E Michael Kavanagh is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kavanagh authored 605 published opinions for the court (2007–2012), plus 13 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hastings v. Sauve (255 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. 620 of these were attributed to Kavanagh 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
2012	Hastings v. Sauve†	94 A.D.3d 1171	255
2010	Pegasus Cleaning Corp. v. Smith†	73 A.D.3d 1328	243
2012	People v. Gordon†	101 A.D.3d 1473	234
2008	People v. Singletary†	51 A.D.3d 1334	54
2009	People v. Henry†	64 A.D.3d 804	36
2010	People v. Judware†	75 A.D.3d 841	33
2010	People v. Thibeault†	73 A.D.3d 1237	33
2008	Roberts v. Boys & Girls Republic, Inc.· Dissent†	51 A.D.3d 246	33
2008	People v. Foster†	52 A.D.3d 957	32
2012	Robinson v. Bartlett†	95 A.D.3d 1531	31
2011	People v. Cordato· Concurrence†	85 A.D.3d 1304	31
2011	Munson v. Fanning†	84 A.D.3d 1483	28
2009	In re Kole HH.†	61 A.D.3d 1049	27
2011	People v. Irvis†	90 A.D.3d 1302	25
2011	People v. Wright†	88 A.D.3d 1154	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 620 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 is E Michael Kavanagh on?: E Michael Kavanagh is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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20 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).