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 1992 / Served to 2010

Fred T. Santucci

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Fred T. Santucci was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2010 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Santucci authored 22 published opinions for the court (1992–2009), plus 11 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Maurillo v. Park Slope U-Haul (64 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. 35 of these were attributed to Santucci 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
1993	Maurillo v. Park Slope U-Haul†	194 A.D.2d 142	64
1997	People v. King†	232 A.D.2d 111	55
1993	D'Anjou v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.· Dissent†	196 A.D.2d 818	31
2004	Marte v. Brooklyn Hospital Center†	9 A.D.3d 41	29
1997	Siler v. 146 Montague Associates†	228 A.D.2d 33	27
2004	City of New York v. Mobil Oil Corp.†	12 A.D.3d 77	25
1993	Lui v. Park Ridge at Terryville Ass'n· Dissent†	196 A.D.2d 579	24
2001	In re Naquan†	284 A.D.2d 1	20
1995	Ellis v. Peter†	211 A.D.2d 353	20
2007	Abbas v. Cole†	44 A.D.3d 31	19
2000	Pawlukiewicz v. Boisson· Dissent†	275 A.D.2d 446	18
1995	Suffolk Sports Center, Inc. v. Belli Construction Corp.†	212 A.D.2d 241	17
1993	Krukowski v. Steffensen†	194 A.D.2d 179	16
2000	Bordan v. North Shore University Hospital· Concurrence†	275 A.D.2d 335	15
1993	People v. McCrea· Concurrence†	194 A.D.2d 742	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Fred T. Santucci on?: Fred T. Santucci 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).