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 2000 / Served to 2006

L Paul Kehoe

Justice, New York Appellate Division

L Paul Kehoe was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2006 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kehoe authored 12 published opinions for the court (2000–2006), plus 13 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Wroten (52 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. 26 of these were attributed to Kehoe 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
2001	People v. Wroten†	286 A.D.2d 189	52
2003	Scalp & Blade, Inc. v. Advest, Inc.†	309 A.D.2d 219	47
2001	Lenchyshyn v. Pelko Electric, Inc.†	281 A.D.2d 42	39
2000	Pitchure v. Kandefer Plumbing & Heating· Dissent†	273 A.D.2d 790	27
2002	Kellogg v. Kellogg· Dissent†	300 A.D.2d 996	23
2004	Town of Newfane v. General Star National Insurance†	14 A.D.3d 72	17
2002	MetLife Auto & Home v. Joe Basil Chevrolet, Inc.†	303 A.D.2d 30	16
2000	Campbell v. Haber· Dissent†	274 A.D.2d 946	16
2001	Martin v. Lattimore Road Surgicenter, Inc.· Dissent†	281 A.D.2d 866	13
2000	Kolb v. Casella· Dissent†	270 A.D.2d 964	13
2006	Martinson v. Martinson· Dissent†	32 A.D.3d 1276	11
2001	People v. Gee†	286 A.D.2d 62	11
2001	Cook v. Carmen S. Pariso, Inc.†	287 A.D.2d 208	9
2000	Gottstine v. Dunlop Tire Corp.· Dissent†	272 A.D.2d 863	7
2005	People v. Wardlaw†	18 A.D.3d 106	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Paul Kehoe on?: L Paul Kehoe was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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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).