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 1982 / Served to 1997

John H. Doerr

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John H. Doerr was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1997 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doerr authored 26 published opinions for the court (1982–1996), plus 24 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bean v. Walker (290 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. 51 of these were attributed to Doerr 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
1983	Bean v. Walker†	95 A.D.2d 70	290
1985	Heath v. Soloff Construction, Inc.· Concurrence†	107 A.D.2d 507	76
1982	Jakubowski v. Lengen†	86 A.D.2d 398	34
1982	People v. Hughes· Dissent†	88 A.D.2d 17	29
1987	In re the Estate of Collins†	124 A.D.2d 48	27
1985	Kenford Co. v. County of Erie†	108 A.D.2d 132	26
1984	In re the Foreclosure of Tax Liens†	103 A.D.2d 636	25
1991	People v. Justice· Dissent†	173 A.D.2d 144	22
1983	Hawkins v. Kurlander· Dissent†	98 A.D.2d 14	21
1982	Drake v. Drake†	89 A.D.2d 207	21
1982	People v. Lynch†	85 A.D.2d 126	21
1995	Curry v. Roman†	217 A.D.2d 314	18
1990	People v. Goodell†	164 A.D.2d 321	17
1996	Cole v. O'Tooles of Utica, Inc.†	222 A.D.2d 88	15
1991	People v. Candella†	171 A.D.2d 329	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 H. Doerr on?: John H. Doerr 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).