List of associate judges of the New York Court of Appeals

This is a list of associate judges of the New York Court of Appeals, with their tenure on the court.

Associate judges serving before 1870

Judge	Years served	Party	Comment
William F. Allen	1854, 1862, 1870–1878	Democrat
William J. Bacon	1860, 1868
Greene Carrier Bronson	1847–1851	Democrat
John W. Brown	1857, 1865
Daniel Cady	1849
William W. Campbell	1865
George F. Comstock	1855–1861	American	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Charles Daniels	1869
Noah Davis	1865
Gilbert Dean	1855
Robert Earl	1868–1870, 1870–1894	Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Samuel A. Foote	1851
Addison Gardiner	1847–1855	Democrat/Anti–Rent	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Hiram Gray	1851, 1859
Martin Grover	1859, 1867–1870, 1870–1875	Democrat
Augustus C. Hand	1855
Ira Harris	1850, 1858
Ward Hunt	1865–1870	Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Amaziah B. James	1861, 1869
Freeborn G. Jewett	1846–1853	Democrat
Alexander S. Johnson	1852–1859, 1873–1874	Democrat
Samuel Jones	1847–1848
John A. Lott	1861, 1869–1870	Democrat
Richard P. Marvin	1855, 1863
Charles Mason	1853, 1861, 1868–1869
John Maynard	1850	Whig
Theodore Miller	1868, 1875–1886	Democrat
Joseph Mullin	1864
Amasa J. Parker	1854
Rufus W. Peckham Sr.	1866, 1870–1873	Democrat
John K. Porter	1865–1867	Republican
Daniel Pratt	1850, 1858
Charles Herman Ruggles	1847–1855	Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Henry R. Selden	1862–1865
Samuel Lee Selden	1856–1862	Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Selah B. Strong	1849, 1859
Theron R. Strong	1858
Josiah Sutherland	1862, 1870
John Willard	1853	Democrat
Lewis B. Woodruff	1868–1869	Republican	Also served on the Second U.S. Circuit Court

Associate judges serving between 1870 and 1974

Judge	Years served	Appointing Governor/Party	Comment
William F. Allen	1870–1878	Democrat
Charles Andrews	1870–1897	Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
William Shankland Andrews	1917–1928
Edward T. Bartlett	1894–1910	Republican
Willard Bartlett	1906–1916	Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Francis Bergan	1964–1972	Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department
Charles D. Breitel	1967–1978	Republican/Liberal	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Bruce Bromley	1949	Thomas E. Dewey, Republican
Adrian P. Burke	1955–1973	Democrat/Liberal
Benjamin N. Cardozo	1914–1932	Democrat/Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Emory A. Chase	1906–1921	Frank W. Higgins, Republican
Frederick Collin	1910–1920	Charles Evans Hughes, Republican
Albert Conway	1940–1959	Democrat/Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Lawrence H. Cooke	1974–1984	Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Leonard C. Crouch	1932–1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat
William H. Cuddeback	1913–1919	Democrat/Independence League
Edgar M. Cullen	1900–1913	Democrat/Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
George F. Danforth	1879–1889	Republican
Charles S. Desmond	1940–1966	Democrat/Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Marvin R. Dye	1945–1965	Democrat/American Labor/Liberal
Robert Earl	1868–1870, 1870–1894	Democrat
Abram I. Elkus	1919–1920	Al Smith, Democrat
Edward R. Finch	1935–1943	Democrat
Charles J. Folger	1870–1881	Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Francis M. Finch	1880–1895
Henry A. Foster	1870
Sydney F. Foster	1960–1963	Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department
Charles W. Froessel	1950–1962	Democrat/Liberal
Jacob D. Fuchsberg	1975–1983	Democrat
Stanley H. Fuld	1946–1973	Republican/Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Domenick L. Gabrielli	1973–1982	Republican/Conservative
James Gibson	1969–1972	Nelson A. Rockefeller, Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Third Judicial Department
John Clinton Gray	1888–1913
Martin Grover	1859, 1867–1870, 1870–1875	Democrat
Albert Haight	1895–1912	Republican
Samuel Hand	1878–1879
Frank H. Hiscock	1906–1926	Republican/Progressive	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
John W. Hogan	1913–1923	Democrat
William B. Hornblower	1914	Democrat
Irving G. Hubbs	1929–1939	Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department
Matthew J. Jasen	1968–1985
Alexander S. Johnson	1852–1859, 1873–1874	Democrat
Hugh R. Jones	1973–1984	Republican/Conservative
Kenneth B. Keating	1965–1969	Republican	Also served as U.S. Senator from New York
Henry T. Kellogg	1927–1934
Irving Lehman	1923–1945	Democrat/Republican/American Labor	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Edmund H. Lewis	1940–1954	Republican/Democrat/Liberal	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
John T. Loughran	1934–1953	Democrat/Republican/American Labor/Liberal	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Celora E. Martin	1896–1904	Republican
Isaac H. Maynard	1892–1893
Chester B. McLaughlin	1918–1926	Charles S. Whitman, Republican
George Z. Medalie	1945–1946	Thomas E. Dewey, Republican	Also served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Nathan Lewis Miller	1913–1915	Republican	Also served as Governor of New York
Theodore Miller	1868, 1875–1886	Democrat
Denis O'Brien	1889–1907	Democrat	Also served as New York Attorney General
John F. O'Brien	1927–1934	Al Smith, Democrat
Rufus W. Peckham Jr.	1886–1895	Democrat	Also served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Rufus W. Peckham Sr.	1866, 1870–1873	Democrat
Cuthbert W. Pound	1915–1934	Republican/Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Samuel Rabin	1974	Malcolm Wilson, Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second Judicial Department
Charles A. Rapallo	1870–1887	Democrat
Harlan W. Rippey	1937–1944	Democrat
John F. Scileppi	1963–1972	Democrat/Liberal
Samuel Seabury	1914–1916	Democrat/Progressive/Independence League/American
Charles B. Sears	1940	Herbert H. Lehman, Democrat	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department
Harold A. Stevens	1974	Malcolm Wilson, Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Thomas D. Thacher	1943–1948	Thomas E. Dewey, Republican	Also served as Solicitor General of the United States and as a U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Benjamin F. Tracy	1881–1882	Alonzo B. Cornell, Republican	Also served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and the United States Secretary of the Navy
Irving G. Vann	1895–1912	Levi P. Morton, Republican
John Van Voorhis	1953–1967	Thomas E. Dewey, Republican
Sol Wachtler	1973–1992	Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
William E. Werner	1900–1916	Republican/Democrat

Associate judges serving since 1974

Judge	Years served	Appointing Governor/Party	Comment
Sheila Abdus-Salaam	2013–2017	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Fritz W. Alexander II	1985–1992	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Joseph W. Bellacosa	1987–2000	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Charles D. Breitel	1967–1978	Republican/Liberal	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Anthony Cannataro	2021–	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick	1994–2012	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Lawrence H. Cooke	1974–1984	Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Eugene M. Fahey	2015–2021	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Paul G. Feinman	2017–2021	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Jacob D. Fuchsberg	1975–1983	Democrat
Domenick L. Gabrielli	1973–1982	Republican/Conservative
Michael J. Garcia	2016–	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Victoria A. Graffeo	2000–2014	George Pataki, Republican	Also served as Solicitor General for the State of New York
Caitlin Halligan	2023–	Kathy Hochul, Democrat
Stewart F. Hancock Jr.	1986–1993	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Matthew J. Jasen	1968–1985
Hugh R. Jones	1973–1984	Republican/Conservative
Theodore T. Jones	2007–2012	Eliot Spitzer, Democrat
Judith S. Kaye	1983–2008	Mario Cuomo, Democrat	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Howard A. Levine	1993–2002	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Bernard S. Meyer	1979–1986	Hugh L. Carey, Democrat
Eugene F. Pigott Jr.	2006–2016	George Pataki, Republican	Also served as Presiding Justice of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Susan Phillips Read	2003–2015	George Pataki, Republican
Jenny Rivera	2013–	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Albert Rosenblatt	1998–2007	George Pataki, Republican
Richard D. Simons	1983–1997	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Madeline Singas	2021–	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
George Bundy Smith	1992–2006	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Robert S. Smith	2004–2014	George Pataki, Republican
Leslie E. Stein	2015–2021	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat
Vito J. Titone	1985–1998	Mario Cuomo, Democrat
Shirley Troutman	2022–	Kathy Hochul, Democrat
Sol Wachtler	1973–1992	Republican	Also served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Richard C. Wesley	1997–2003	George Pataki, Republican	Subsequently appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Rowan D. Wilson	2017–2023	Andrew Cuomo, Democrat	Subsequently appointed as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals

See also

• List of chief judges of the New York Court of Appeals
• Judiciary of New York
• New York Constitution
• Government of New York state
• Court of Appeals of New York