New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department Explained

Court Name:	Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department
Authority:	Constitution of the State of New York
Appealsto:	New York Court of Appeals
Location:	Manhattan, New York
Type:	Gubernatorial appointment

The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, or simply the First Department, is one of the four geographical components of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, the intermediate appellate court of the State of New York. Its courthouse is located in Manhattan, New York City.

Jurisdiction

The First Department of the Appellate Division holds jurisdiction over the Counties of New York and the Bronx. Appeals are taken to the Appellate Division, as a matter of right, in civil and criminal cases, from the Supreme Court, Surrogate's Court, Family Court, and Court of Claims.

Along with the state's other three Appellate Departments, it shares responsibility for all admissions to the New York bar. Under the state's bar admission rules, all bar applicants must be interviewed in person by one of the Appellate Departments. The First Department admits only residents of Manhattan and the Bronx, with all other applicants being admitted by other Departments. However, once admitted by one department, a new attorney may practice in any New York state court.

Case load

Over 3,000 appeals, 6,000 motions, and 1,000 interim applications are determined each year.

Current justices

Name	Appointed as Justice	Tenure as Presiding Justice	Appointing Governor
	2008	2023–present	David Paterson Elevated by Kathy Hochul
David Friedman	1999		George Pataki
Sallie Manzanet-Daniels	2009		David Paterson
Barbara R. Kapnick	2014		Andrew Cuomo
Troy K. Webber	2016		Andrew Cuomo
Ellen Gesmer	2016		Andrew Cuomo
Cynthia S. Kern	2017		Andrew Cuomo
Jeffrey K. Oing	2017		Andrew Cuomo
Anil C. Singh	2017		Andrew Cuomo
Peter H. Moulton	2017		Andrew Cuomo
Lizbeth González	2019		Andrew Cuomo
Tanya R. Kennedy	2020		Andrew Cuomo
Saliann Scarpulla	2020		Andrew Cuomo
Manuel J. Mendez	2020		Andrew Cuomo
Martin Shulman	2020		Andrew Cuomo
Julio Rodriguez III	2021		Andrew Cuomo
Bahaati Pitt-Burke	2021		Andrew Cuomo
John R. Higgitt	2021		Andrew Cuomo
Llinét M. Rosado	2023		Kathy Hochul
Kelly O'Neill Levy	2023		Kathy Hochul
Marsha Michael	2023		Kathy Hochul

List of presiding justices

	Name	Years
1		18961905	^[1]
2		19051906	^[2]
3		19061910	^[3]
4		19101915	^[4]
5		19161926	^[5]
6		19271931	^[6]
7		19311935	^[7]
8		19351947	^[8]
9		19471957	^[9]
10		19581968	^[10]
11		19691974	^[11]
12		19741975	^[12]
13		19751977
14		19771997	^[13]
15		1998	^[14]
16		1999	^[15]
17		20002001	^[16]
18		2002	^[17]
19		20032006	^[18]
20		20072009	^[19]
21		20092015	^[20]
22		20172023	^[21]
23		2023	^[22]

Former justices

• George C. Barrett (1896–1900)
• Charles H. Van Brunt (1896–1905, P.J. 1896–1905)
• William Rumsey (1896–1901)
• Pardon C. Williams (1896–1898)
• Morgan J. O’Brien (1896–1906, P.J. 1905–1906)
• Edward Patterson (1896–1910, P.J. 1906–1910)
• George L. Ingraham (1896–1915, P.J. 1910–1915)
• Alton B. Parker (1897)
• Chester B. McLaughlin (1898–1917)
• Edward W. Hatch (1900–1905)
• Frank C. Laughlin (1901–1922)
• James W. Houghton (1905–1910)
• John P. Clarke (1905–1926, P.J. 1916–1926)
• John S. Lambert (1906–1908)
• Francis M. Scott (1906–1918)
• Nathan L. Miller (1910–1913)
• Victor J. Dowling (1911–1931, P.J. 1927–1931)
• Henry D. Hotchkiss (1913–1915)
• Walter L. Smith (1915–1924)
• Alfred R. Page (1916–1923)
• Vernon M. Davis (1916–1918)
• Clarence J. Shearn (1916–1919)
• Edgar S.K. Merrell (1918–1935)
• Eugene A. Philbin (1920)
• Samuel Greenbaum (1920–1922)
• Edward R. Finch (1922–1935, P.J. 1931–1935)
• John V. McAvoy (1923–1937)
• Francis W. Martin (1923–1947, P.J. 1935–1947)
• William P. Burr (1924–1926)
• Robert F. Wagner (1926)
• James O'Malley (1927–1942)
• Joseph M. Proskauer (1927–1930)
• Henry L. Sherman (1930–1933)
• Alfred H. Townley (1931–1946)
• Edward J. Glennon (1933–1954)
• Irwin Untermyer (1933–1945)
• Edward S. Dore (1936–1954)
• Albert Cohn (1936–1955)
• Joseph M. Callahan (1937–1955)
• David W. Peck (1945–1957, P.J. 1947–1957)
• Isidor Wasservogel (1945)
• John Van Voorhis (1947–1953)
• Bernard L. Shientag (1947–1952)
• Francis D. McCurn (1951)
• Christopher J. Heffernan (1951–1952)
• Charles D. Breitel (1952–1966)
• Francis Bergan (1952–1963)
• Sydney F. Foster (1952–1953)
• Earle C. Bastow (1953–1970)
• Bernard Botein (1953–1968, P.J. 1958–1968)
• Benjamin J. Rabin (1955–1968)
• Joseph A. Cox (1955–1956)
• Martin M. Frank (1956–1960)
• Francis L. Valente (1956–1966)
• James B.M. McNally (1957–1972)
• Harold A. Stevens (1958–1974, 1975–1977, P.J. 1969–1974, 1975–1977)
• Robert E. Noonan (1960–1964)
• Samuel W. Eager (1960–1972)
• Aron Steuer (1961–1974)
• G. Robert Witmer (1963–1971)
• Ellis J. Staley, Jr. (1964–1968)
• Louis J. Capozzoli (1966–1977)
• George Tilzer (1967–1975)
• Owen McGivern (1967–1975, P.J. 1974–1975)
• Daniel E. Macken (1968–1974)
• Arthur Markewich (1969–1982)
• Emilio Nunez (1969–1977)
• Francis T. Murphy (1971–1997, P.J. 1977–1997)
• Theodore R. Kupferman (1971–1996)
• Myles J. Lane (1973–1979)
• Vincent A. Lupiano (1974–1982)
• J. Robert Lynch (1974–1987)
• Paul J. Yesawich, Jr. (1974–1981)
• Harold Birns (1975–1982)
• Samuel J. Silverman (1975–1984)
• Herbert B. Evans (1977–1979)
• Arnold L. Fein (1977–1986)
• Leonard H. Sandler (1977–1988)
• Joseph P. Sullivan (1978–2007, P.J. 2000–2001)
• Max Bloom (1979–1986)
• David Ross (1979–1997)
• John Carro (1979–1994)
• Sidney H. Asch (1982–1995)
• E. Leo Milonas (1982–1993, 1996–1998)
• Bentley Kassal (1982–1993)
• Fritz W. Alexander II (1982–1985)
• Ernst H. Rosenberger (1985–2003)
• Betty Weinberg Ellerin (1985–2005, P.J. 1999)
• Richard W. Wallach (1986–2003)
• George Bundy Smith (1987–1992)
• Israel Rubin (1989–2002)
• Eugene L. Nardelli (1993–2010)
• Milton L. Williams (1993–2008, P.J. 2002)
• Peter Tom (1994-2019, Acting P.J. 2007, 2009, 2016–2017)
• Richard Andrias (1996-2018)
• Nicholas Colabella (1997–1998)
• Alfred D. Lerner (1998–2004, P.J. 1998)
• David B. Saxe (1998–2017)
• John T. Buckley (1999–2010, P.J. 2003–2006)
• George D. Marlow (2001–2008)
• Luis A. Gonzalez (2002–2015, P.J. 2009–2015)
• John Sweeny (2004-2019)
• James M. McGuire (2005–2011)
• Bernard J. Malone, Jr. (2005–2008)
• E. Michael Kavanagh (2006–2008)
• Jonathan Lippman (2007–2009, P.J. 2007–2009)
• James M. Catterson (2004–2012)
• Karla Moskowitz (2008–2017)
• Helen E. Freedman (2008–2014)
• Leland G. DeGrasse (2008–2015)
• Sheila Abdus-Salaam (2009–2013)
• Nelson S. Román (2009–2013)
• Rosalyn Richter (2009–2020)
• Darcel D. Clark (2012–2015)
• Paul G. Feinman (2012–2017)
• Marcy L. Kahn (2016-2019)

Notable cases

• Pando v. Fernandez
• People v. Jovanovic
• Stambovsky v. Ackley

See also

• New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
• New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department

External links

• • How We Operate: An Inside Look at the Appellate Division, First Department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Charles H. Van Brunt . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230407022943/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/charles-h-van-brunt/ . April 7, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
2. Web site: Morgan J. O’Brien . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230606173302/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/morgan-j-obrien/ . June 6, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
3. Web site: Edward Patterson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230204063753/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/edward-patterson/ . February 4, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
4. Web site: George L. Ingraham . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230327200213/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/george-l-ingraham/ . March 27, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
5. Web site: John Proctor Clarke . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230327192722/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/john-proctor-clarke/ . March 27, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
6. Web site: Victor J. Dowling . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230324194135/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/victor-j-dowling/ . March 24, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
7. Web site: Edward Ridley Finch . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230606102837/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/edward-ridley-finch-2/ . June 6, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
8. Web site: Francis Martin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230204055419/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/francis-martin/ . February 4, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
9. Web site: David W. Peck . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230604142905/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/david-w-peck/ . June 4, 2023 . July 12, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
10. Web site: Bernard Botein . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230713030523/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/bernard-botein/ . July 13, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
11. Web site: Harold A. Stevens . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230530034703/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/harold-a-stevens/ . May 30, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
12. Web site: Owen McGivern . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230603004338/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/owen-mcgivern/ . June 3, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
13. Web site: Francis T. Murphy . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230128142408/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/francis-t-murphy/ . January 28, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
14. Web site: Alfred D. Lerner . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230603003128/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/alfred-d-lerner/ . June 3, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
15. Web site: Betty Weinberg Ellerin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230204062703/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/betty-weinberg-ellerin/ . February 4, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
16. Web site: Joseph P. Sullivan . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230324192851/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/joseph-p-sullivan/ . March 24, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
17. Web site: Milton L. Williams . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230407090531/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/milton-l-williams/ . April 7, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
18. Web site: John T. Buckley . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230201102043/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/john-t-buckley/ . February 1, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
19. Web site: Jonathan Lippman . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230205051614/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/jonathan-lippman-2/ . February 5, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
20. Web site: Luis A. Gonzalez . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230606161301/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/luis-a-gonzalez/ . June 6, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
21. Web site: Rolando T. Acosta . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230329105603/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/rolando-t-acosta/ . March 29, 2023 . July 13, 2023 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.
22. Web site: Dianne T. Renwick . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240123163819/https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/dianne-t-renwick/ . January 23, 2024 . January 23, 2024 . Historical Society of the New York Courts.