Ariel E. Belen
Candidate for the
Supreme Court
Second Judicial District
(Kings)

• On January 16, 2008, the Governor appointed Honorable Ariel E. Belen an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department. Prior to this appointment, Justice Belen served as the Administrative Judge of the State Supreme Court, Civil Term, Kings County beginning on February 23, 2007. Justice Belen was earlier appointed an Associate Justice of the Appellate Term, for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts. At the Appellate Term, Justice Belen heard appeals from the Criminal and Civil Courts of the City of New York. Justice Belen was previously designated a Justice of the Commercial Division of the State Supreme Court. Justice Belen attended Cornell Law School where he earned the Doctor of Law with Specialization in International Legal Affairs degree in 1981. Justice Belen is an instructor at the New York State Judicial Institute and is the co-author of a trial practice treatise with Carl Grasso and Edward Birnbaum entitled New York Trial Notebook, James Publishing (2005).

• Conservative
• Democrat
• Republican

• Brooklyn College of the City Of New York, B.A., Cum Laude, 1978
• Cornell Law School, Juris Doctor, 1981

• New York 1982

• Assoc. Justice, Appellate Division 2d Dept.

• Administrative Judge Supreme Court, Kings County 2007-2008
• Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County 1995- 2008
• New York City Law Department, Office of the Corporation Counsel: Borough Chief, Bronx County, 1994-1995 Deputy Borough Chief, Kings County, 1993-1994 Asst. Corporation Counsel, 1990-1993
• Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division Supervising Attorney, 1986-1990 Staff Attorney, 1981-1986