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 2000 / Active

Robert S. Rose

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Robert S. Rose is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rose authored 2,368 published opinions for the court (2000–2017), plus 19 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Boland (256 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. 2,396 of these were attributed to Rose 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
2011	People v. Boland†	89 A.D.3d 1144	256
2017	People v. Ford†	2017 NY Slip Op 9202	251
2015	LaValley v. Northeastern Clinton Central School District†	130 A.D.3d 1276	248
2016	Matter of Central City Roofing Co., Inc. v. Musolino†	136 A.D.3d 1186	244
2017	People v. Madison†	148 A.D.3d 1289	237
2012	People v. Carnevale· Concurrence†	101 A.D.3d 1375	159
2010	Rought v. Price Chopper Operating Co.· Concurrence†	73 A.D.3d 1414	155
2011	In re Armani KK.†	81 A.D.3d 1001	146
2010	Sember v. Sember†	72 A.D.3d 1150	138
2015	Albertalli v. Albertalli†	124 A.D.3d 941	135
2012	Smith v. Smith†	91 A.D.3d 1083	132
2006	Township of Thompson v. New York State Electric & Gas Corp.†	25 A.D.3d 850	84
2005	Bevins v. Witherbee†	20 A.D.3d 718	54
2003	People v. Tarver†	2 A.D.3d 968	41
2000	Burgio v. Burgio†	278 A.D.2d 767	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,397 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 is Robert S. Rose on?: Robert S. Rose is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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26 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).