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 1964 / Served to 1966

Herbert D. Hamm

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Herbert D. Hamm was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1972
Tenure: 1964–1966 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hamm authored 76 published opinions for the court (1964–1966). Most cited: Weiss v. Garfield (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. 76 of these were attributed to Hamm 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	Weiss v. Garfield†	21 A.D.2d 156	39
1965	Shanty Hollow Corp. v. Poladian†	23 A.D.2d 132	12
1965	Melino v. Tougher Heating & Plumbing Co.†	23 A.D.2d 616	11
1966	Fisher v. MacVean†	25 A.D.2d 575	9
1964	Kane v. New York State Department of Correction†	21 A.D.2d 919	8
1965	Comstock v. Beeman†	24 A.D.2d 931	5
1964	Vetere v. Mitchell†	21 A.D.2d 561	5
1964	Claim of Redder v. Village of Clyde†	21 A.D.2d 917	5
1964	In re the Estate of Locke†	21 A.D.2d 248	5
1965	Chemung County v. Hartman†	24 A.D.2d 1063	4
1965	People v. Silverman†	23 A.D.2d 947	4
1964	In re the Estate of Tooker†	21 A.D.2d 928	4
1965	In re Ford†	24 A.D.2d 806	3
1965	Studley v. Allen†	24 A.D.2d 678	3
1964	Claims of Markowitz v. Mack Markowitz, Inc.†	22 A.D.2d 1001	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 D. Hamm on?: Herbert D. Hamm was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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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).