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 1990 / Served to 2006

Sondra Miller

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Sondra Miller was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2006 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 25 published opinions for the court (1990–1998), plus 26 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Wowaka & Sons, Inc. v. Pardell (257 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. 65 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1998	Wowaka & Sons, Inc. v. Pardell†	242 A.D.2d 1	257
1990	Koppenhoefer v. Koppenhoefer†	159 A.D.2d 113	94
1995	Teller v. Bill Hayes, Ltd.†	213 A.D.2d 141	91
1990	Laurie Marie M. v. Jeffrey T. M.†	159 A.D.2d 52	62
1991	Sperling v. Sperling†	165 A.D.2d 338	58
1994	Cassano v. Cassano· Concurrence†	203 A.D.2d 563	43
1996	Sica v. Board of Education· Dissent†	226 A.D.2d 542	42
1995	Matarrese v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.· Dissent†	215 A.D.2d 7	42
1993	Board of Managers of Fairways at North Hills Condominium v. Fairway at North Hills†	193 A.D.2d 322	31
1994	Alanna M. v. Duncan M.· Dissent†	204 A.D.2d 409	28
1992	Peterson v. Goldberg†	180 A.D.2d 260	28
1998	Marano v. Mercy Hospital†	241 A.D.2d 48	25
1998	Brown v. Appelman†	241 A.D.2d 279	24
1996	Kagan v. State of New York†	221 A.D.2d 7	24
1993	Seaman v. A.B. Chance Co.· Concurrence†	197 A.D.2d 612	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 65 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 Sondra Miller on?: Sondra Miller was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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16 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).