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 1949 / Served to 1955

R Foster Piper

Justice, New York Appellate Division

R Foster Piper was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1955
Tenure: 1949–1955 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Piper authored 26 published opinions for the court (1949–1955), plus 9 dissents. Most cited: Fiebelkorn v. Rogacki (29 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. 35 of these were attributed to Piper 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
1952	Fiebelkorn v. Rogacki†	280 A.D. 20	29
1955	O'Hara v. Sears Roebuck & Co.†	286 A.D. 104	17
1954	Gurevitch v. State· Dissent†	284 A.D. 717	17
1951	Paglia v. State†	278 A.D. 281	15
1952	Monan v. Board of Education†	280 A.D. 14	13
1951	Backus v. MacLaury†	278 A.D. 504	12
1954	Long v. Macduff†	284 A.D. 61	9
1954	Miller v. Greyvan Lines, Inc.· Dissent†	284 A.D. 133	8
1953	People v. Hooter· Dissent†	282 A.D. 398	8
1951	Pizza v. Lyons†	278 A.D. 65	8
1955	Siemer v. Village Board of Orchard Park†	286 A.D. 135	7
1954	Canandaigua National Bank & Trust Co. v. Commercial Credit Corp.†	285 A.D. 7	7
1954	Bowman v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.· Dissent†	284 A.D. 663	7
1951	Irons v. Michigan-Atlantic Corp.†	279 A.D. 32	7
1954	Crance v. State†	284 A.D. 750	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 R Foster Piper on?: R Foster Piper was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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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).