Rowan Wilson

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Rowan Wilson
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Nonpartisan

New York Court of Appeals
Tenure

2017 - Present

Term ends

2030

Years in position

7

Compensation

Base salary

$257,500

Elections and appointments
Appointed

January 15, 2017

Education

Bachelor's

Harvard College, 1981

Law

Harvard Law School, 1984

Contact

Official website 

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Rowan Wilson is a judge of the New York Court of Appeals. He assumed office on February 6, 2017. His current term ends on December 31, 2030.

Wilson first became a member of the State of New York Court of Appeals through gubernatorial appointment. He was appointed in January 2017 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to succeed retired Judge Eugene Pigott, and was confirmed by the New York State Senate on February 6, 2017.[1] To read more about judicial selection in New York, click here.

Wilson was confirmed as chief judge on April 18, 2023.[2]


In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[3] Wilson received a confidence score of Mild Democrat.[4] Click here to read more about this study.

Biography

Wilson received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1981 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984.[5] Prior to his appointment to the State of New York Court of Appeals, he was an attorney in private practice from 1986 to 2017 with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He was a law clerk to Judge James R. Browning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1984 to 1986.

Appointments

2023

See also: New York Court of Appeals justice vacancy (August 2022)

New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore retired effective August 31, 2022. DiFiore's replacement will be Governor Kathy Hochul's (D) second nominee to the seven-member court.[6]

Gov. Hochul nominated New York Supreme Court Judge Hector D. LaSalle to fill the vacancy, but the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the nomination by one vote in January 2023.[7] The full New York State Senate voted 39-20 against LaSalle's nomination in a floor vote held on February 15, 2023.[8]

On April 10, 2023, Gov. Hochul nominated New York Supreme Court Judge Rowan Wilson to fill the vacancy.[9] On April 18, 2023, the New York State Senate confirmed Rowan as Chief Judge.[10]

At the time of the vacancy under New York law, midterm vacancies were filled through assisted appointment. Under this method, the governor appoints a new judge from a list of qualified nominees submitted by a judicial nominating commission. The nominee must be confirmed by the New York State Senate. The newly appointed judge serves a full 14-year term.

2017

Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Wilson to the New York Court of Appeals.[11]

Analysis

Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)

See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters

Last updated: June 15, 2020

In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.

The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[12]

The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:

  • Strong Democrat
  • Mild Democrat
  • Indeterminate[13]
  • Mild Republican
  • Strong Republican

This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.

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Rowan
Wilson

New York

  • Partisan Confidence Score:
    Mild Democrat
  • Judicial Selection Method:
    Assisted appointment through hybrid judicial nominating commission
  • Key Factors:
    • Donated over $2,000 to Democratic candidates
    • Was a registered Democrat before 2020
    • Appointed by a Democratic governor


Partisan Profile

Details:

Wilson donated $196,391 to Democratic candidates and organizations. He was a registered Democrat prior to 2020. He was appointed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).



Noteworthy events

Wilson confirmed as first Black chief judge in New York (2023)

On April 18, 2023, the New York State Senate confirmed Wilson as the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Governor Kathy Hochul (D) nominated him on April 10.[14] Judge Wilson heads the state's highest court with six associate judges and serves as chief administrator judge for the state. He previously served as an associate judge on the same court.[15] Judge Wilson is the first Black chief judge since the founding of the court in 1847.[16]

State supreme court judicial selection in New York

See also: Judicial selection in New York

The seven judges of the New York Court of Appeals are selected through the assisted appointment method. The governor appoints each new judge from a list of qualified nominees submitted by a judicial nominating commission. The nominee must be confirmed by the New York State Senate.[17][18]

Judges serve 14-year terms. To remain on the court, a judge must be renominated by the governor and reconfirmed by the Senate. Judges must retire at the end of the year in which they turn 70 years old; however, retired judges may serve until the end of the year in which they turn 76 years old if they are certified as competent every two years.[17][18]

Qualifications

To serve on this court, a person must be a resident of New York and must have been admitted to practice law in New York for at least 10 years.[17][18]

Chief judge

The chief judge of the court of appeals is selected through the same assisted appointment method as other judges on the court and serves in that role for a full term. The position of chief judge is a specific seat on the court rather than a temporary leadership position.[17][18]

Vacancies

See also: How vacancies are filled in state supreme courts

Midterm vacancies are filled by assisted appointment. The governor appoints a new judge from a list of qualified nominees submitted by a judicial nominating commission. The nominee must be confirmed by the New York State Senate. The newly appointed judge serves a full 14-year term.[17][18]

The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.



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Officeholder

New York Court of Appeals

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, "Governor Cuomo Nominates Rowan D. Wilson as Associate Judge on New York State Court of Appeals," January 16, 2017
    2. ↑ Court of Appeals State of New York, "Honorable Rowan D. Wilson," accessed April 20, 2023
    3. ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
    4. ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
    5. ↑ Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, "Rowan D. Wilson," accessed August 6, 2021
    6. ↑ New York Times, "Chief Judge Resigns at Crucial Time for New York’s Top Court," July 11, 2022
    7. ↑ Politico, "Hochul's chief judge pick rejected by her own party in stunning defeat," January 18, 2023
    8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named full
    9. ↑ Politico, "Hochul nominates new chief judge in New York after initial rejection," accessed April 12, 2023
    10. ↑ WGRZ, "1st Black chief judge for New York state confirmed," accessed April 19, 2023
    11. ↑ Spectrum News, "New Chief Judge Rowan Wilson celebrated after historic ascension," September 12, 2023
    12. ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
    13. ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
    14. ↑ WGRZ, "1st Black chief judge for New York state confirmed," April 19, 2023
    15. ↑ NYCOURTS.GOV, "Court Structure," 4/20/2023
    16. ↑ Historical Society of the New York Courts, "CHIEF JUDGES & THEIR COURTS TIMELINE," April 19, 2023
    17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 National Center for State Courts, "Methods of Judicial Selection: New York," accessed September 12, 2021
    18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 New York State, "The Constitution of the State of New York," accessed September 12, 2021 (Article VI)


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