The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York is the intermediate appellate court in New York State. The state is geographically divided into four judicial departments of the Appellate Division. The full title of each is,using the "Fourth Department" as an example,the "Supreme Court of the State of New York,Appellate Division,Fourth Judicial Department".
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the judiciary of New York. It is vested with unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction,although in many counties outside New York City it acts primarily as a court of civil jurisdiction,with most criminal matters handled in County Court.
The New York Court of Chancery was the highest court in the State of New York from 1701 to 1847.
Anthony J. Carpinello is a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court and of the Appellate Division,Third Department.
Sallie Manzanet-Daniels is an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Helen E. Freedman is a former judge who served in the New York State court system for 36 years. From 2008 to 2014,she served as an associate justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Dianne Theresa Renwick is the presiding justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,First Judicial Department.
Business Courts,sometimes referred to as Commercial Courts,are trial courts that primarily or exclusively adjudicate internal business disputes and/or commercial litigation between businesses,heard before specialist judges assigned to these courts. Commercial Courts outside the United States may have broader or narrower jurisdiction than state trial level business and commercial courts within the United States,for example patent or admiralty jurisdiction;and jurisdiction may vary between countries.
Anthony Cannataro is an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals,serving since September 1,2022. He has served as an associate judge of the same court since his 2021 appointment by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cannataro previously served as the chief administrative judge of the New York City Civil Court from 2018 to 2021 and as a judge on various New York City courts from 2012 to 2021.
Shirley Troutman is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals since 2022. She served as an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court,Appellate Division from 2016 to 2022.
Hector Daniel LaSalle is an American lawyer and jurist who is the presiding judge of the New York State Supreme Court,Appellate Division,Second Department. He was unsuccessfully nominated by Governor Kathy Hochul to serve as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals,the state's highest court.
Leonard B. Austin is a retired American judge in New York state,who served in both the trial level Supreme Court and in the Supreme Court Appellate Division.
Timothy Sean Driscoll is an American judge,serving as a justice in the trial level Supreme Court of Nassau County,New York. He has served in that court's specialized Commercial Division from 2009 to the present. He is a leader among New York judges in the Commercial Division,and in the national community of specialized business court judges. Before becoming a judge,he served in the executive branch of county government,served as both a federal and local prosecutor in criminal matters,and held a prestigious judicial clerkship in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Carolyn E. Demarest is a retired American judge who served in New York's state and local court systems for 33 years. This includes her role as justice of the trial level New York Supreme Court for Brooklyn,Kings County,where she served for 26 years,and was one of that court's original Commercial Division specialist business court judges.
Elizabeth Hazlitt Emerson is a retired American judge who served on the New York Supreme Court of Suffolk County for 28 years,21 of those years presiding in that court's Commercial Division,a specialized business court. She was instrumental in establishing the Suffolk County Commercial Division,and has played an important part in developing New York's Commercial Division statewide. She worked at prestigious New York law firms before being elected to the bench for two 14-year terms,and has been recognized and honored for her work as a judge and judicial administrator.
Ira Gammerman was an American judge who served as a trial division judge on the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan for over 20 years,and then for another 14 years as a Judicial Hearing Officer after his judicial retirement. He was one of the first specialized business court judges in New York and the United States. He oversaw thousands of cases,including numerous high-profile cases.
