New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department

Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department
File:2010 Appellate Division NYS Supreme Court.jpg First Department Courthouse in Rose Hill
Established	1894 (1894)
Location	Manhattan, New York
Composition method	Gubernatorial appointment
Authorised by	Constitution of the State of New York
Appeals to	New York Court of Appeals
Website	www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/

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
Dianne Renwick	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
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
Margaret A. Chan	2025		Kathy Hochul
Shlomo S. Hagler	2025		Kathy Hochul

List of presiding justices

Presiding justices

No.	Name	Years	Ref.
1	Charles H. Van Brunt	1896–1905
2	Morgan J. O'Brien	1905–1906
3	Edward Patterson	1906–1910
4	George Landon Ingraham	1910–1915
5	John Proctor Clarke	1916–1926
6	Victor J. Dowling	1927–1931
7	Edward R. Finch	1931–1935
8	Francis W. Martin	1935–1947
9	David W. Peck	1947–1957
10	Bernard Botein	1958–1968
11	Harold A. Stevens	1969–1974
12	Owen McGivern	1974–1975
13	Harold A. Stevens	1975–1977
14	Francis T. Murphy	1977–1997
15	Alfred D. Lerner	1998
16	Betty Weinberg Ellerin	1999
17	Joseph P. Sullivan	2000–2001
18	Milton L. Williams	2002
19	John T. Buckley	2003–2006
20	Jonathan Lippman	2007–2009
21	Luis A. Gonzalez	2009–2015
22	Rolando Acosta	2017–2023
23	Dianne Renwick	2023–present

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)
• Jeffrey K. Oing (2017-2024)
• Anil C. Singh (2017-2025)

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

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