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 1976 / Served to 1991

Michael F. Dillon

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Michael F. Dillon was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–1991
Tenure: 1976–1991 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dillon authored 110 published opinions for the court (1976–2021), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Heath v. Soloff Construction, Inc. (76 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. 94 of these were attributed to Dillon 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
1985	Heath v. Soloff Construction, Inc.†	107 A.D.2d 507	76
1990	People v. Shrubsall· Dissent†	167 A.D.2d 929	72
1979	Miracle Mile Assoc v. Yudelson	68 A.D.2d 176	59
2014	Midfirst Bank v. Agho	121 A.D.3d 343	56
2014	Farage v. Ehrenberg	124 A.D.3d 159	52
2015	Phillip v. D&D Carting Co., Inc.	136 A.D.3d 18	48
1978	Perry v. Fiumano†	61 A.D.2d 512	47
2015	Kraus v. Kraus	131 A.D.3d 94	32
1986	People v. Garneau†	120 A.D.2d 112	32
1981	Havel v. Kelsey-Hayes Co.†	83 A.D.2d 380	32
1978	Benderson Development Co. v. Schwab Bros. Trucking, Inc.†	64 A.D.2d 447	31
1977	Pease v. Colucci†	59 A.D.2d 233	30
1989	People v. Powell†	153 A.D.2d 54	27
1984	O'Donnell v. K-Mart Corp.†	100 A.D.2d 488	27
2021	Matter of B.Z. Chiropractic, P.C. v. Allstate Ins. Co.	197 A.D.3d 144	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 121 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 Michael F. Dillon on?: Michael F. Dillon 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.

15 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).