How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1969 / Served to 1972

James Gibson

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

James Gibson was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1992
Tenure: 1969–1972 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Albany Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Gibson authored 37 published opinions for the court (1969–1972), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: People v. Calvano (342 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. 43 of these were attributed to Gibson 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
1972	People v. Calvano†	30 N.Y.2d 199	342
1971	In Re Estate of Frutiger†	29 N.Y.2d 143	197
1971	Smullen v. City of New York†	28 N.Y.2d 66	79
1970	Green v. Downs†	27 N.Y.2d 205	79
1972	People v. Kenny· Dissent†	30 N.Y.2d 154	56
1972	People v. Gary†	31 N.Y.2d 68	52
1972	Proskin v. County Court of Albany County· Dissent†	30 N.Y.2d 15	52
1970	People v. Radich†	26 N.Y.2d 114	51
1972	Neri v. Retail Marine Corp.†	30 N.Y.2d 393	49
1972	Wartels v. County Asphalt, Inc.†	29 N.Y.2d 372	45
1971	People v. Mendez†	28 N.Y.2d 94	39
1972	Matter of Dorn\†	31 N.Y.2d 154	31
1970	Terpstra v. Niagara Fire Insurance†	26 N.Y.2d 70	30
1972	Ferro v. Bologna†	31 N.Y.2d 30	24
1969	Rubin v. Empire Mutual Insurance†	25 N.Y.2d 426	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was James Gibson on?: James Gibson was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 years on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).