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 1956 / Served to 1969

James Gibson

Justice, New York Appellate Division

James Gibson was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1956–1969 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gibson authored 389 published opinions for the court (1956–1969), plus 7 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Prudhomme v. Hults (30 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. 403 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
1967	Prudhomme v. Hults†	27 A.D.2d 234	30
1960	Masten v. State†	11 A.D.2d 370	26
1967	Gramm v. State†	28 A.D.2d 787	25
1969	Shalman v. Board of Education of Central School District No. 1†	31 A.D.2d 338	22
1965	Conklin v. State†	22 A.D.2d 481	20
1959	Claim of Mlodozeniec v. Worthington Corp.†	9 A.D.2d 21	17
1966	Stranger v. New York State Electric & Gas Corp.†	25 A.D.2d 169	16
1965	Claim of Charak v. Leddy†	23 A.D.2d 437	16
1969	McCartney v. Austin†	31 A.D.2d 370	15
1967	Bathrick Enterprises, Inc. v. Murphy	27 A.D.2d 215	15
1961	Baker v. Topping†	15 A.D.2d 193	15
1964	Chemical Leaman Tank Lines, Inc. v. Stevens†	21 A.D.2d 556	14
1969	Claim of Spaminato v. Bay Transportation Corp.†	32 A.D.2d 345	13
1964	Abare v. Hatch†	21 A.D.2d 84	13
1968	In re the Accounting of Bankers Trust Co.· Concurrence†	29 A.D.2d 145	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 405 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 Gibson on?: James Gibson was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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13 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).