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 2010 / Active

John C. Egan Jr.

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John C. Egan Jr. is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Egan authored 938 published opinions for the court (2010–2025), plus 5 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Bloomer v. Shauger (262 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. 940 of these were attributed to Egan 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
2012	Bloomer v. Shauger†	94 A.D.3d 1273	262
2015	People v. Buie†	128 A.D.3d 1281	245
2016	People v. Cuevas†	140 A.D.3d 1313	240
2012	Gonzalez v. L'Oreal USA, Inc.†	92 A.D.3d 1158	157
2011	People v. Burnell†	89 A.D.3d 1118	62
2010	People v. Newkirk†	75 A.D.3d 853	50
2013	People v. Kenyon†	108 A.D.3d 933	48
2013	People v. Johnson†	106 A.D.3d 1272	45
2014	People v. Green†	119 A.D.3d 23	44
2010	People v. Molina†	79 A.D.3d 1371	42
2012	Knight v. Knight†	92 A.D.3d 1090	41
2011	Dobies v. Brefka†	83 A.D.3d 1148	39
2010	People v. Wilson†	78 A.D.3d 1213	39
2013	Darrow v. Darrow†	106 A.D.3d 1388	37
2010	People v. Rolle†	72 A.D.3d 1393	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 953 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 is John C. Egan Jr. on?: John C. Egan Jr. is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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16 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).