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 1980

Joseph A. Suozzi

Justice, New York Appellate Division

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

Tenure: 1976–1980 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Suozzi authored 16 published opinions for the court (1976–1979), plus 24 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Comiskey v. Arlen (74 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. 56 of these were attributed to Suozzi 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
1976	Comiskey v. Arlen†	55 A.D.2d 304	74
1978	Donohue v. Copiague Union Free School District· Dissent†	64 A.D.2d 29	67
1979	Tuxedo Conservation & Taxpayers Ass'n v. Town Board· Dissent†	69 A.D.2d 320	58
1978	Felice v. St. Agnes Hospital· Concurrence†	65 A.D.2d 388	56
1979	People v. Brown· Dissent†	68 A.D.2d 503	35
1977	Shire Realty Corp. v. Schorr· Dissent†	55 A.D.2d 356	29
1979	Killeen v. Reinhardt· Concurrence†	71 A.D.2d 851	21
1979	Yates v. Dow Chemical Co.· Dissent†	68 A.D.2d 907	16
1979	Bank v. Rebold†	69 A.D.2d 481	14
1979	Coutant v. Town of Poughkeepsie†	69 A.D.2d 506	14
1979	People v. Rosano· Concurrence†	69 A.D.2d 643	14
1979	D. M. C. Construction Corp. v. A. Leo Nash Steel Corp.†	70 A.D.2d 635	14
1978	County of Nassau v. South Farmingdale Water District†	62 A.D.2d 380	14
1979	Goldman v. Garofalo· Concurrence†	71 A.D.2d 650	13
1979	Sullivan Realty Organization, Inc. v. Syart Trading Corp.†	68 A.D.2d 756	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 56 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 A. Suozzi on?: Joseph A. Suozzi was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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4 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).