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 1979 / Served to 1994

John Carro

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John Carro was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1979–1994 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Education

Brooklyn Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Carro authored 72 published opinions for the court (1980–1994), plus 66 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Apple Records, Inc. v. Capitol Records, Inc. (132 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. 143 of these were attributed to Carro 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
1988	Apple Records, Inc. v. Capitol Records, Inc.†	137 A.D.2d 50	132
1987	Blye v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority†	124 A.D.2d 106	69
1987	In re Nicole V.†	123 A.D.2d 97	39
1991	Frank v. Park Summit Realty Corp.	175 A.D.2d 33	38
1986	Fehr Bros. v. Scheinman†	121 A.D.2d 13	35
1988	People v. Bourne†	139 A.D.2d 210	30
1991	Soto v. Koehler†	171 A.D.2d 567	29
1990	Febesh v. Elcejay Inn Corp.†	157 A.D.2d 102	29
1986	People v. Bond†	116 A.D.2d 28	28
1986	People v. Torres†	115 A.D.2d 93	28
1993	People v. Garriga†	189 A.D.2d 236	27
1993	Reliance Group Holdings, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance†	188 A.D.2d 47	27
1988	Chiang v. Chang†	137 A.D.2d 371	27
1992	Rosiny v. Schmidt· Dissent†	185 A.D.2d 727	26
1985	People v. McLean†	107 A.D.2d 167	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 146 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 Carro on?: John Carro was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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15 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).