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 1994 / Active

Karen K. Peters

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Karen K. Peters is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peters authored 2,842 published opinions for the court (1994–2017), plus 44 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Taylor (548 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. 2,916 of these were attributed to Peters 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
2017	People v. Taylor	2017 NY Slip Op 7649	548
2015	Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Ostiguy†	127 A.D.3d 1375	304
2003	Shaw v. Burgess· Concurrence†	303 A.D.2d 857	260
2017	People v. Nelson†	2017 NY Slip Op 8903	259
2016	Sprole v. Sprole†	145 A.D.3d 1367	256
2017	Matter of Soriano v. Elia†	2017 NY Slip Op 8431	253
2017	Webb v. Albany Medical Center†	2017 NY Slip Op 5146	253
2006	People v. Thomas†	33 A.D.3d 1053	253
2003	People v. Williams†	301 A.D.2d 794	251
2011	Dickerson v. Thompson†	88 A.D.3d 121	248
2010	Bush v. Mechanicville Warehouse Corp.†	79 A.D.3d 1327	247
2006	Goodfriend v. Devletsah-Goodfriend†	29 A.D.3d 1041	156
2001	People v. Bleau†	276 A.D.2d 131	122
2013	People v. Pimentel†	108 A.D.3d 861	104
2005	Doe v. Holy See· Concurrence†	17 A.D.3d 793	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,922 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 Karen K. Peters on?: Karen K. Peters is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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32 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).