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 NameStartAppointer, Presiding Justice (D) (R) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D) (D)

List of presiding justices

+ Name Years 1 189619052 190519063 190619104 191019155 191619266 192719317 193119358 193519479 1947195710 1958196811 1969197412 1974197513 1975197714 1977199715 199816 199917 2000200118 200219 2003200620 2007200921 2009201522 2017202323 2023

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) Cynthia S. Kern (2017-2026) 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

References

External links

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