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 1947 / Served to 1959

Henry J. Kimball

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Henry J. Kimball was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1960
Tenure: 1947–1959 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kimball authored 57 published opinions for the court (1948–1959), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: Markel v. Spencer (39 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. 68 of these were attributed to Kimball 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
1958	Markel v. Spencer· Dissent†	5 A.D.2d 400	39
1954	People ex rel. Johnson v. Martin†	283 A.D. 478	24
1955	Buduson v. Curtis· Dissent†	285 A.D. 517	23
1953	People v. Pauley†	281 A.D. 223	23
1951	People v. Draper†	278 A.D. 298	23
1956	In re the Accounting of Rifle†	1 A.D.2d 259	21
1954	Legault v. Brown†	283 A.D. 303	19
1953	In re the Accounting of Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co.· Dissent†	281 A.D. 383	17
1951	Napiearlski v. Pickering†	278 A.D. 456	17
1957	Baker v. Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Ass'n of America†	3 A.D.2d 265	13
1955	People v. Light†	285 A.D. 496	13
1956	In re the Construction of the Will of Bush†	2 A.D.2d 526	12
1955	People v. Boehm†	285 A.D. 245	11
1954	In re the Estate of Nowakowski†	284 A.D. 655	11
1954	People ex rel. Dold v. Martin†	284 A.D. 127	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Henry J. Kimball on?: Henry J. Kimball was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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12 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).