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 1945 / Served to 1961

Gerald Nolan

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Gerald Nolan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1980
Tenure: 1945–1961 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nolan authored 34 published opinions for the court (1946–1961), plus 15 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Halio v. Lurie (68 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. 56 of these were attributed to Nolan 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
1961	Halio v. Lurie†	15 A.D.2d 62	68
1960	Olsen v. Chase Manhattan Bank	10 A.D.2d 539	42
1951	In re the Arbitration between Minkin & Halperin· Concurrence†	279 A.D. 226	36
1953	Hendry v. Hilton· Concurrence†	283 A.D. 168	33
1960	Mason v. Allstate Insurance†	12 A.D.2d 138	30
1948	Nori v. City of Yonkers· Dissent†	274 A.D. 545	24
1960	Gerard v. Inglese†	11 A.D.2d 381	19
1961	Sirianni v. Sirianni†	14 A.D.2d 432	17
1959	Ahern v. Board of Supervisors†	7 A.D.2d 538	17
1954	Goldberg v. Colonial Life Insurance· Concurrence†	284 A.D. 678	15
1960	Kopp v. Barnes†	10 A.D.2d 532	14
1957	Civil Service Forum v. New York City Transit Authority†	4 A.D.2d 117	14
1957	Madden v. Atkins· Dissent†	4 A.D.2d 1	14
1960	Friou v. Gentes· Dissent†	11 A.D.2d 124	12
1957	People v. Malmud†	4 A.D.2d 86	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Gerald Nolan on?: Gerald Nolan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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16 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).