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 1981 / Served to 2000

M Dolores Denman

Justice, New York Appellate Division

M Dolores Denman was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2000
Tenure: 1981–2000 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Denman authored 82 published opinions for the court (1981–1999), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Mott (135 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. 91 of these were attributed to Denman 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
1983	People v. Mott†	94 A.D.2d 415	135
1982	City of Tonawanda v. Ellicott Creek Homeowners Ass'n†	86 A.D.2d 118	94
1982	MacDonald v. Clinger†	84 A.D.2d 482	94
1996	Father Belle Community Center v. New York State Division of Human Rights†	221 A.D.2d 44	92
1993	Lamey v. Foley†	188 A.D.2d 157	80
1983	DaBolt v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.†	92 A.D.2d 70	80
1992	Sweatland v. Park Corp.†	181 A.D.2d 243	56
1982	People v. Huntley†	87 A.D.2d 488	55
1985	Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority v. Tri-Delta Construction Corp.†	107 A.D.2d 450	54
1989	Staples v. Town of Amherst†	146 A.D.2d 292	51
1993	Porter v. LSB Industries, Inc.†	192 A.D.2d 205	46
1989	Scutti Enterprises, Inc. v. Wackerman Guchone Custom Builders, Inc.†	153 A.D.2d 83	38
1996	Hartford Insurance v. Halt†	223 A.D.2d 204	35
1990	Birnbaum v. Birnbaum†	157 A.D.2d 177	32
1982	Von Holden v. Chapman†	87 A.D.2d 66	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 91 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 M Dolores Denman on?: M Dolores Denman was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

19 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).