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 1955 / Served to 1967

Henry L. Ughetta

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Henry L. Ughetta was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1967
Tenure: 1955–1967 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ughetta authored 16 published opinions for the court (1955–1966), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Rottkamp v. Young (114 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. 30 of these were attributed to Ughetta 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
1964	Rottkamp v. Young· Dissent†	21 A.D.2d 373	114
1956	Village of Bronxville v. Francis†	1 A.D.2d 236	40
1961	Baldinger v. Consolidated Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	15 A.D.2d 526	24
1965	Finegold v. Lewis†	22 A.D.2d 447	22
1965	In re Perfection Technical Services Press, Inc.†	22 A.D.2d 352	17
1957	Anonymous v. Anonymous†	3 A.D.2d 590	13
1964	Durant v. Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corp.· Dissent†	20 A.D.2d 242	12
1955	Morton v. Maryland Casualty Co.†	1 A.D.2d 116	9
1965	Addabbo v. Donovan· Concurrence†	22 A.D.2d 383	7
1961	Tyrnauer v. Travelers Insurance· Dissent†	15 A.D.2d 293	6
1962	In re the Estate of Newins†	16 A.D.2d 436	2
1957	Cahill v. Regan†	4 A.D.2d 328	2
1956	Lerner v. Casey†	2 A.D.2d 1	2
1966	People v. Mager†	25 A.D.2d 363	1
1966	Palese v. Palese· Dissent†	25 A.D.2d 540	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 30 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 L. Ughetta on?: Henry L. Ughetta 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).