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 1977 / Served to 1979

Herbert B. Evans

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Herbert B. Evans was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2009
Tenure: 1977–1979 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Evans authored 11 published opinions for the court (1977–1979), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Belsky v. Lowenthal (78 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. 13 of these were attributed to Evans 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
1978	Belsky v. Lowenthal†	62 A.D.2d 319	78
1977	Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl v. Daelen Corp.†	59 A.D.2d 375	41
1978	People v. Gonzalez†	61 A.D.2d 666	29
1979	Flaks, Zaslow & Co. v. Bank Computer Network Corp.†	66 A.D.2d 363	28
1978	Alexandre v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.†	61 A.D.2d 537	15
1978	Minton v. Domb†	63 A.D.2d 36	14
1978	People v. Hendy†	64 A.D.2d 407	8
1977	People v. Bartley· Concurrence†	60 A.D.2d 283	8
1978	People v. Mendez· Dissent†	63 A.D.2d 69	5
1978	People v. Allweiss†	61 A.D.2d 74	5
1977	Bata Shoe Co. v. Hijos†	58 A.D.2d 133	5
1977	Cousins v. Instrument Flyers, Inc.†	58 A.D.2d 336	4
1977	Grand Central Building, Inc. v. New York & Harlem Railroad†	59 A.D.2d 207	3

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 Herbert B. Evans on?: Herbert B. Evans was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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2 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).