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 1940 / Served to 1954

Frank F. Adel

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Frank F. Adel was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1967
Tenure: 1940–1954 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Adel authored 10 published opinions for the court (1940–1953), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Hendry v. Hilton (33 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. 22 of these were attributed to Adel 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
1953	Hendry v. Hilton†	283 A.D. 168	33
1943	McEvoy v. City of New York· Dissent†	266 A.D. 445	32
1945	Holmes v. City of New York· Dissent†	269 A.D. 95	30
1940	Sarine v. American Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. of Illinois· Dissent†	258 A.D. 653	17
1940	John Kennedy & Co. v. New York World's Fair 1939 Inc.†	260 A.D. 386	14
1940	Neary v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co.†	260 A.D. 791	12
1940	Lowenhar v. Commercial Outfitting Co.· Dissent†	260 A.D. 211	12
1943	In re the Will of Filor· Dissent†	267 A.D. 269	9
1945	Shea v. Shea†	268 A.D. 677	8
1940	Fischer v. Guaranty Trust Co.†	259 A.D. 176	6
1944	Kings County Savings Bank v. Fulton Savings Bank Kings County· Dissent†	268 A.D. 452	5
1944	Havens v. Rochester Ropes, Inc.· Dissent†	267 A.D. 394	5
1940	People v. Samuels· Concurrence†	259 A.D. 167	4
1943	In re the Accounting of Luckenbach†	267 A.D. 275	3
1940	O'Connell v. Westinghouse X-Ray Co.†	261 A.D. 8	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Frank F. Adel on?: Frank F. Adel was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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14 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).