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 1984 / Served to 1993

Norman L. Harvey

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Norman L. Harvey was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1996
Tenure: 1984–1993 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harvey authored 887 published opinions for the court (1984–1993), plus 11 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Mackey (148 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. 902 of these were attributed to Harvey 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
1988	People v. Mackey†	136 A.D.2d 780	148
1989	In re the Claim of Baker†	147 A.D.2d 790	52
1985	Arnold v. State†	108 A.D.2d 1021	44
1993	Muzzi v. Muzzi†	189 A.D.2d 1022	41
1993	Cochetti v. Gralow†	192 A.D.2d 974	35
1992	People v. Longo†	182 A.D.2d 1019	35
1991	Walsh v. Sweet Associates, Inc.†	172 A.D.2d 111	35
1988	Heindel v. Bowery Savings Bank†	138 A.D.2d 787	35
1989	Munzer v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance†	145 A.D.2d 193	34
1990	Davis v. Rosenblatt†	159 A.D.2d 163	32
1987	Halvorsen v. Ford Motor Co.†	132 A.D.2d 57	32
1987	Amedure v. Standard Furniture Co.†	125 A.D.2d 170	32
1989	Hall & Co. v. Steiner & Mondore†	147 A.D.2d 225	30
1989	Splawnik v. Di Caprio†	146 A.D.2d 333	30
1986	Samhammer v. Home Mutual Insurance†	120 A.D.2d 59	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 903 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 Norman L. Harvey on?: Norman L. Harvey 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).