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 1988 / Served to 2013

Thomas E. Mercure

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Thomas E. Mercure was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2013 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mercure authored 3,121 published opinions for the court (1988–2013), plus 48 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Burns (263 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. 3,188 of these were attributed to Mercure 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
2005	People v. Burns†	17 A.D.3d 709	263
2011	Hush v. Taylor†	84 A.D.3d 1532	262
2006	People v. Garcia†	30 A.D.3d 833	260
2003	Shaw v. Burgess†	303 A.D.2d 857	260
2007	In re the Estate of Fairbairn†	46 A.D.3d 973	257
1988	Hierro v. E. W. Bliss Co.†	145 A.D.2d 731	252
2012	Ward v. Murariu Bros.†	100 A.D.3d 1084	242
2006	People v. Wilhelm†	34 A.D.3d 40	166
1991	Garges v. Garges†	175 A.D.2d 511	138
2013	Soja v. Keystone Trozze, LLC†	106 A.D.3d 1168	128
1990	Quail Ridge Associates v. Chemical Bank†	162 A.D.2d 917	91
1999	Black Radio Network, Inc. v. Public Service Commission†	253 A.D.2d 22	87
2005	Doe v. Holy See†	17 A.D.3d 793	85
1992	Borg-Warner Corp. v. Insurance Co. of North America†	174 A.D.2d 24	74
1990	Constantine v. Leto†	157 A.D.2d 376	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 3,190 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 Thomas E. Mercure on?: Thomas E. Mercure was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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25 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).