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 1954 / Active

Howard A. Zeller

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Howard A. Zeller is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1912 · age 114
Tenure: Since 1954 · 72 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Zeller authored 32 published opinions for the court (1954–1956), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Rutkowski v. Wasko (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. 34 of these were attributed to Zeller 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
1955	Rutkowski v. Wasko†	286 A.D. 327	39
1956	Santa's Workshop, Inc. v. Sterling· Dissent†	2 A.D.2d 262	24
1954	Frechette v. Special Magazines, Inc.†	285 A.D. 174	20
1955	Horoch v. State†	286 A.D. 303	19
1954	Sullivan v. City of Watervliet†	285 A.D. 179	13
1955	Claim of Berenberg v. Park Memorial Chapel†	286 A.D. 167	11
1955	Claim of Iannone v. Radory Construction Corp.†	285 A.D. 751	11
1955	Claim of Meit v. P. S. & M. Catering Corp.†	285 A.D. 506	9
1954	Gerald v. City of Ogdensburg†	284 A.D. 767	8
1956	Roberts v. Gagnon†	1 A.D.2d 297	6
1955	People v. Hess†	286 A.D. 617	5
1955	People v. Dockum†	285 A.D. 510	5
1956	In re Huie†	1 A.D.2d 500	4
1956	Paris v. Poticha†	1 A.D.2d 277	4
1955	Erikson v. Helfand†	1 A.D.2d 59	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 is Howard A. Zeller on?: Howard A. Zeller is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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72 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).