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 1976 / Served to 1978

Joseph F. Hawkins

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Joseph F. Hawkins was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1986
Tenure: 1976–1978 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hawkins authored 10 published opinions for the court (1976–1978), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Carlisle v. County of Nassau (33 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. 16 of these were attributed to Hawkins 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
1978	Carlisle v. County of Nassau· Dissent†	64 A.D.2d 15	33
1978	Government Employees Insurance v. Employers Commercial Union Insurance†	62 A.D.2d 123	27
1978	C. De Masco Scrap Iron & Metal Corp. v. Zirk†	62 A.D.2d 92	13
1978	People v. Felder· Dissent†	61 A.D.2d 309	11
1976	Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Enco Associates, Inc.†	54 A.D.2d 13	10
1977	Windsor Park Tenants' Ass'n v. New York City Conciliation & Appeals Board· Concurrence†	59 A.D.2d 121	9
1978	Mauldin v. New York City Transit Authority†	64 A.D.2d 114	7
1978	People v. Jones†	61 A.D.2d 264	7
1977	People v. Nimmons†	60 A.D.2d 129	4
1977	Marcus Associates, Inc. v. Town of Huntington†	57 A.D.2d 116	4
1976	Steiner v. Wenning†	53 A.D.2d 437	4
1978	Di Filippi v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States· Dissent†	61 A.D.2d 168	3
1977	State v. Local 1115 Joint Board, Nursing Home & Hospital Employees Division· Dissent†	56 A.D.2d 310	3
1978	People v. Pomerantz†	63 A.D.2d 457	2
1978	People v. Ermo· Dissent†	61 A.D.2d 177	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 F. Hawkins on?: Joseph F. Hawkins was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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2 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).