How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 2006 / Active

Eugene F. Pigott Jr.

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Eugene F. Pigott Jr. is a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2006 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pigott authored 212 published opinions for the court (2006–2016), plus 116 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Dumay (2,054 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. 305 of these were attributed to Pigott 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
2014	People v. Dumay· Dissent†	23 N.Y.3d 518	2,054
2010	People v. Dreyden†	15 N.Y.3d 100	1,662
2015	The People v. Joseph Conceicao / The People v. Federico Perez / The People v. Javier Sanchez†	26 N.Y.3d 375	1,475
2011	People v. Evans†	949 N.E.2d 457	989
2013	People v. Peque· Concurrence†	22 N.Y.3d 168	751
2011	Ortiz v. Varsity Holdings, LLC†	960 N.E.2d 948	672
2008	MATTER OF MARKOWITZ v. Serio†	11 N.Y.3d 43	482
2011	Wilinski v. 334 East 92nd Housing Development Fund Corp.· Dissent†	18 N.Y.3d 1	464
2009	Godfrey v. Spano	13 N.Y.3d 358	410
2014	In re Doyle· Dissent†	23 N.Y.3d 656	392
2011	Brad H. v. City of New York· Dissent†	951 N.E.2d 743	374
2015	Pegasus Aviation I, Inc. v. Varig Logistica S.A.†	26 N.Y.3d 543	372
2009	IDT Corp. v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.	12 N.Y.3d 132	370
2010	People v. Porto· Dissent†	16 N.Y.3d 93	344
2016	Turturro ex rel. Turturro v. City of New York· Dissent†	28 N.Y.3d 469	338

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Eugene F. Pigott Jr. on?: Eugene F. Pigott Jr. is a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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19 years on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).