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 1962 / Served to 1966

L Barron Hill

Justice, New York Appellate Division

L Barron Hill was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1962–1966 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 8 published opinions for the court (1962–1966), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Stevenson (19 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 Hill 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
1965	People v. Stevenson†	23 A.D.2d 472	19
1962	Trippe v. Port of New York Authority†	17 A.D.2d 472	6
1965	Sweeney v. Cannon†	23 A.D.2d 1	5
1966	Anonymous v. Anonymous†	25 A.D.2d 350	4
1964	People v. Weinberger†	21 A.D.2d 353	4
1963	Poniatowski v. City of New York†	19 A.D.2d 64	1
1963	Weinstein v. Levy†	18 A.D.2d 398	1
1962	People v. Tuomey†	17 A.D.2d 247	1
1962	People v. Davis· Dissent†	17 A.D.2d 657	0

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 L Barron Hill on?: L Barron Hill 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).