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 2006 / Active

William E. Mccarthy

Justice, New York Appellate Division

William E. Mccarthy is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mccarthy authored 1,335 published opinions for the court (2007–2018), plus 21 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Suzanne v. Suzanne (253 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. 1,373 of these were attributed to Mccarthy 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
2010	Suzanne v. Suzanne†	69 A.D.3d 1011	253
2012	Biagiotti v. Biagiotti†	97 A.D.3d 941	153
2012	People v. Wallgren†	94 A.D.3d 1339	149
2014	People v. Weishaupt†	118 A.D.3d 1100	143
2017	O'Connor v. Aerco International, Inc.†	2017 NY Slip Op 5487	58
2011	Cunningham v. Anderson†	85 A.D.3d 1370	47
2012	Pritchard v. Curtis†	101 A.D.3d 1502	46
2010	Ramos v. Ramos†	75 A.D.3d 1008	41
2015	People v. Cruz†	131 A.D.3d 724	39
2011	People v. McCottery†	90 A.D.3d 1323	39
2012	People v. Rogers†	94 A.D.3d 1246	38
2012	People v. Tucker†	91 A.D.3d 1030	38
2011	Black v. Kohl's Department Stores, Inc.†	80 A.D.3d 958	38
2016	People v. Toledo†	144 A.D.3d 1332	37
2013	People v. Hawkins†	110 A.D.3d 1242	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,381 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 William E. Mccarthy on?: William E. Mccarthy is a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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20 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).