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 1979 / Served to 2001

Guy James Mangano

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Guy James Mangano was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–2001 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mangano authored 90 published opinions for the court (1979–2000), plus 25 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Pagano v. Kingsbury (215 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. 132 of these were attributed to Mangano 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
1992	Pagano v. Kingsbury†	182 A.D.2d 268	215
1981	Daghir v. Daghir· Dissent†	82 A.D.2d 191	143
1981	Gloria S. v. Richard B.· Concurrence†	80 A.D.2d 72	128
1983	Shaw v. Shaw· Concurrence†	97 A.D.2d 403	82
1983	Ahern v. Ahern†	94 A.D.2d 53	80
1980	Murray v. Donlan†	77 A.D.2d 337	64
1982	People v. Corti†	88 A.D.2d 345	56
1983	Engel v. Lichterman†	95 A.D.2d 536	52
1981	People v. Thompson· Dissent†	79 A.D.2d 87	50
1984	People v. Jones†	105 A.D.2d 179	46
1983	Klatz v. Armor Elevator Co.†	93 A.D.2d 633	44
1986	Stanley v. Lebetkin· Dissent†	123 A.D.2d 854	43
1982	People v. Livigni†	88 A.D.2d 386	43
2000	People v. Brathwaite†	263 A.D.2d 89	42
1982	People v. Dykes· Concurrence†	86 A.D.2d 191	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 133 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 Guy James Mangano on?: Guy James Mangano was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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22 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).