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 1973 / Served to 1987

Robert G. Main

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Robert G. Main was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1917 · age 109
Tenure: 1973–1987 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Main authored 463 published opinions for the court (1973–1987), plus 21 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. City School District of City of Troy (245 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. 485 of these were attributed to Main 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
1982	Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. City School District of City of Troy†	88 A.D.2d 167	245
1986	Mesick v. State· Concurrence†	118 A.D.2d 214	78
1974	People v. Chestnut†	43 A.D.2d 260	70
1985	Young v. Keith†	112 A.D.2d 625	41
1978	Sessa v. State†	63 A.D.2d 334	41
1975	Rinaldi v. State†	49 A.D.2d 361	37
1985	Carpenter v. City of Plattsburgh†	105 A.D.2d 295	33
1983	People v. West	92 A.D.2d 620	33
1978	Lincoln v. Austic†	60 A.D.2d 487	33
1986	Bertoni v. Catucci†	117 A.D.2d 892	32
1985	Coley v. Arnot Ogden Memorial Hospital†	107 A.D.2d 67	32
1986	Wilbur v. Wilbur†	116 A.D.2d 953	29
1987	In re the Estate of Timoshevich†	133 A.D.2d 1011	28
1986	Cordts v. State†	125 A.D.2d 746	27
1985	People v. Kehn†	109 A.D.2d 912	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 488 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 G. Main on?: Robert G. Main was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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14 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).