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 1999 / Served to 2010

John T. Buckley

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John T. Buckley was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1999–2010 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Buckley authored 40 published opinions for the court (2000–2010), plus 8 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Westbrook v. WR Activities-Cabrera Markets (127 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. 48 of these were attributed to Buckley 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
2004	Westbrook v. WR Activities-Cabrera Markets· Concurrence†	5 A.D.3d 69	127
2003	Vitale v. Steinberg†	307 A.D.2d 107	30
2004	In re Benjamin L.†	9 A.D.3d 153	28
2001	Seward Park Housing Corp. v. Cohen†	287 A.D.2d 157	27
2009	Nabi v. Sells†	70 A.D.3d 252	19
2008	Tuck-It-Away Associates, L.P. v. Empire State Development Corp.· Dissent†	54 A.D.3d 154	19
2001	People v. Jones†	284 A.D.2d 46	18
2001	Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc. v. GCT Venture, Inc.†	285 A.D.2d 68	17
2009	Grimm v. State of New York Division of Housing & Community Renewal Office of Rent Administration· Dissent†	68 A.D.3d 29	16
2008	Molloy v. New York City Police Department†	50 A.D.3d 98	16
2003	Mulheren v. Board of Trustees†	307 A.D.2d 129	12
2003	People v. Aarons†	305 A.D.2d 45	12
2006	Urban Justice Center v. Pataki†	38 A.D.3d 20	11
2006	People v. Stapleton	33 A.D.3d 464	11
2007	Tunick v. Shaw†	45 A.D.3d 145	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 John T. Buckley on?: John T. Buckley was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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11 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).