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 1967 / Served to 1977

Harry D. Goldman

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Harry D. Goldman was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1995
Tenure: 1967–1977 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goldman authored 101 published opinions for the court (1967–1977), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Janke v. Janke (77 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. 107 of these were attributed to Goldman 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
1975	Janke v. Janke†	47 A.D.2d 445	77
1976	Tucker v. Toia†	54 A.D.2d 322	68
1976	Burgundy Basin Inn, Ltd. v. Watkins Glen Grand Prix Corp.†	51 A.D.2d 140	48
1975	DiGrazia v. Castronova†	48 A.D.2d 249	39
1973	Board of Education v. Chautauqua Central School Teachers Ass'n†	41 A.D.2d 47	34
1970	Davis v. De Frank†	33 A.D.2d 236	33
1976	Amos v. Board of Education of Cheektowaga-Sloan Union Free School District†	54 A.D.2d 297	29
1973	Covino v. Alside Aluminum Supply Co.†	42 A.D.2d 77	29
1968	Golisano v. Town Board of Macedon†	31 A.D.2d 85	29
1977	Kelly v. State†	57 A.D.2d 320	25
1974	Jones v. Archibald†	45 A.D.2d 532	24
1973	Service Systems Corp. v. Harris†	41 A.D.2d 20	24
1977	Vickers v. Home Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n†	56 A.D.2d 62	23
1975	Jerry v. Board of Education of the City School District†	50 A.D.2d 149	23
1970	John Deere Co. of Baltimore, Inc. v. William C. Pahl Construction Co.†	34 A.D.2d 85	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Harry D. Goldman on?: Harry D. Goldman was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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10 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).