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 2005 / Served to 2011

Joseph Covello

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Joseph Covello was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Covello authored 7 published opinions for the court (2007–2011), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: O'Gara v. Alacci (246 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. 9 of these were attributed to Covello 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
2009	O'Gara v. Alacci†	67 A.D.3d 54	246
2008	D'Elia v. Menorah Home & Hospital for the Aged and Infirm· Dissent†	51 A.D.3d 848	28
2011	Lugo v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.†	89 A.D.3d 42	26
2010	MacLeod v. County of Nassau†	75 A.D.3d 57	17
2009	Jenkins v. Fieldbridge Associates, LLC†	65 A.D.3d 169	14
2007	In re Christopher Anthony M.· Concurrence†	46 A.D.3d 896	13
2009	H.M. v. E.T.†	65 A.D.3d 119	11
2009	People v. Rodriguez†	69 A.D.3d 143	2
2007	Government Employees Insurance v. Lopez†	44 A.D.3d 256	1

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Joseph Covello on?: Joseph Covello was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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6 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).