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 2005 / Served to 2009

Robert J. Lunn

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Robert J. Lunn was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2009 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lunn authored 3 published opinions for the court (2006–2008), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Ross Realty v. V & A Fabricators, Inc. (255 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. 7 of these were attributed to Lunn 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
2007	Ross Realty v. V & A Fabricators, Inc.†	42 A.D.3d 246	255
2007	Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance v. Genesee Valley Improvement Corp.†	41 A.D.3d 44	10
2006	Kormusis v. Jeffrey Gardens Apartment Corp.· Dissent†	31 A.D.3d 392	4
2006	Fuentes v. Aluskewicz· Dissent†	25 A.D.3d 727	3
2008	In re Arbitration between Buffalo Professional Firefighters Ass'n & Masiello†	50 A.D.3d 106	1
2008	Anonymous v. City of Rochester· Dissent†	56 A.D.2d 139	0
2008	People v. Washington· Dissent†	52 A.D.3d 1303	0

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Robert J. Lunn on?: Robert J. Lunn was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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4 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).