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 2004 / Served to 2012

James Catterson

Justice, New York Appellate Division

James Catterson was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1958 · age 68
Tenure: 2004–2012 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Catterson authored 99 published opinions for the court (2004–2012), plus 54 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Global Minerals & Metals Corp. v. Holme (391 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. 168 of these were attributed to Catterson 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
2006	Global Minerals & Metals Corp. v. Holme†	35 A.D.3d 93	391
2012	Cappabianca v. Skanska USA Building Inc.· Dissent†	99 A.D.3d 139	223
2009	Amaranth LLC v. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.†	71 A.D.3d 40	214
2011	Auriemma v. Biltmore Theatre, LLC†	82 A.D.3d 1	87
2006	Pimentel v. Citibank, N.A.†	29 A.D.3d 141	72
2009	Melfi v. Mount Sinai Hospital†	64 A.D.3d 26	58
2008	Riverside South Planning Corp. v. CRP/Extell Riverside†	60 A.D.3d 61	56
2006	Lacher v. Engel†	33 A.D.3d 10	51
2011	Harris v. City of New York†	83 A.D.3d 104	45
2008	Nevarez v. S.R.M. Management Corp.· Dissent†	58 A.D.3d 295	40
2012	Berenger v. 261 West LLC†	93 A.D.3d 175	39
2008	Freeford Ltd. v. Pendleton†	53 A.D.3d 32	39
2008	Marte v. Graber†	58 A.D.3d 1	36
2011	Saretsky v. 85 Kenmare Realty Corp.†	85 A.D.3d 89	35
2009	Slattery Skanska Inc. v. American Home Assurance Co.†	67 A.D.3d 1	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 168 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 James Catterson on?: James Catterson was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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8 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).