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 1997 / Served to 2006

Leo F. Hayes

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Leo F. Hayes was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2006 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hayes authored 14 published opinions for the court (1997–2006), plus 18 dissents. Most cited: Ruzycki v. Baker (69 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. 32 of these were attributed to Hayes 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
2002	Ruzycki v. Baker†	301 A.D.2d 48	69
1998	People v. Nicodemus· Dissent†	247 A.D.2d 833	53
2002	Ruggiero v. Phillips†	292 A.D.2d 41	28
1999	People v. Foley†	258 A.D.2d 243	24
2001	Bodea v. TransNat Express, Inc.†	286 A.D.2d 5	15
2001	People v. Nicholas· Dissent†	286 A.D.2d 861	15
1999	People v. Foley†	257 A.D.2d 243	13
2002	Spalla v. Village of Brockport· Dissent†	295 A.D.2d 900	12
1999	Brenner v. American Cyanamid Co.†	263 A.D.2d 165	12
2003	Pollard v. United Parcel Service· Dissent†	302 A.D.2d 884	11
2005	People v. Kilgore· Dissent†	21 A.D.3d 1257	9
2005	Phoenix Insurance v. Stamell†	21 A.D.3d 118	9
2001	Child Support Enforcement Unit v. John M.†	283 A.D.2d 40	9
1998	DiNardo v. Koronowski†	252 A.D.2d 69	9
2006	Radisson Community Ass'n v. Long†	28 A.D.3d 88	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 Leo F. Hayes on?: Leo F. Hayes was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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9 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).