How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 2004 / Active

Gary Katzmann

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Gary Katzmann is a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court (6 judges, selected by gubernatorial appointment), serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Katzmann authored 144 published opinions for the court (2005–2016), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Siebe, Inc. v. Louis M. Gerson Co. (344 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. 142 of these were attributed to Katzmann 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
2009	Siebe, Inc. v. Louis M. Gerson Co.†	74 Mass. App. Ct. 544	344
2016	Santos v. U.S Bank National Association†	89 Mass. App. Ct. 687	37
2010	Commonwealth v. Montalvo†	76 Mass. App. Ct. 319	27
2009	Wooters v. Wooters†	74 Mass. App. Ct. 839	27
2006	York v. Zurich Scudder Investments, Inc.†	66 Mass. App. Ct. 610	27
2012	Commonwealth v. Chleikh†	82 Mass. App. Ct. 718	26
2012	Wasson v. Wasson†	81 Mass. App. Ct. 574	26
2007	Commonwealth v. Luthy†	69 Mass. App. Ct. 102	26
2013	Grady v. Commissioner of Correction†	83 Mass. App. Ct. 126	25
2009	Baby Furniture Warehouse Store, Inc. v. Meubles D&F Ltée†	75 Mass. App. Ct. 27	24
2015	Molina v. State Garden, Inc.†	88 Mass. App. Ct. 173	23
2005	Northrup v. Brigham†	63 Mass. App. Ct. 362	23
2005	Commonwealth v. Watkins†	63 Mass. App. Ct. 69	22
2014	Walker v. Collyer†	85 Mass. App. Ct. 311	21
2010	Commonwealth v. Weeks	77 Mass. App. Ct. 1	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 145 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 Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Gary Katzmann on?: Gary Katzmann is a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

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