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 1984 / Served to 1993

Geraldine T. Eiber

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Geraldine T. Eiber was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1993 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Eiber authored 22 published opinions for the court (1984–1993), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Ettore I. v. Angela D. (102 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. 42 of these were attributed to Eiber 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
1987	Ettore I. v. Angela D.†	127 A.D.2d 6	102
1993	Alice C. v. Bernard G. C.†	193 A.D.2d 97	87
1991	Spinosa v. Weinstein†	168 A.D.2d 32	68
1993	Feldman v. Feldman†	194 A.D.2d 207	58
1990	People v. Hernandez†	154 A.D.2d 197	24
1985	People v. Alfaro· Dissent†	108 A.D.2d 517	24
1993	People v. Lewis· Dissent†	195 A.D.2d 523	22
1985	People v. Rodriguez†	113 A.D.2d 337	22
1990	In re the Arbitration between Hynson & American Motors Sales Corp.†	164 A.D.2d 41	21
1992	Medical Business Associates, Inc. v. Steiner†	183 A.D.2d 86	20
1993	Alfonso v. Fernandez· Dissent†	195 A.D.2d 46	19
1988	People v. Banville†	134 A.D.2d 116	19
1992	Paul v. Haley†	183 A.D.2d 44	17
1987	Fox v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance†	132 A.D.2d 17	17
1986	Newsday, Inc. v. Sise†	120 A.D.2d 8	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 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 Geraldine T. Eiber on?: Geraldine T. Eiber was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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9 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).