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 1991 / Served to 1998

John Copertino

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John Copertino was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1998 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Copertino authored 10 published opinions for the court (1992–1998), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Alice C. v. Bernard G. C. (87 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. 21 of these were attributed to Copertino 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
1993	Alice C. v. Bernard G. C.· Concurrence†	193 A.D.2d 97	87
1993	People v. Ashner†	190 A.D.2d 238	69
1993	O'Neil v. O'Neil†	193 A.D.2d 16	41
1992	Zellner v. Stephen D. Conrad, M.D., P. C.†	183 A.D.2d 250	26
1992	Herbil Holding Co. v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance†	183 A.D.2d 219	21
1994	People v. Stiff†	206 A.D.2d 235	20
1993	Glauber v. Glauber†	192 A.D.2d 94	19
1993	Construction Contractors Ass'n of Hudson Valley, Inc. v. Board of Trustees†	192 A.D.2d 265	15
1993	In re Dale P.†	189 A.D.2d 325	11
1995	In re Westchester County Department of Social Services†	211 A.D.2d 235	8
1996	People v. Hendricks· Concurrence†	222 A.D.2d 74	7
1995	Resource Financing, Inc. v. National Casualty Co.· Dissent†	219 A.D.2d 627	5
1993	People v. Butler· Dissent†	196 A.D.2d 659	3
1998	Williams v. Brentwood Farmers Market, Inc.· Dissent†	256 A.D.2d 613	2
1996	Alfajr Printing & Publishing Co. v. Zuckerman· Dissent†	230 A.D.2d 879	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 Copertino on?: John Copertino was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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7 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).