The other five, including Ms. Silverman and Mr. Greenberg, were appointed either by Mayor Dinkins or by City Council members.
Judges are appointed either directly by the president or on his recommendation by the upper chamber of parliament.
The seven-member court includes four justices who were appointed by former Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican, and three, including Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, who were appointed either by Mr. Paterson or by Mr. Spitzer, both Democrats.
Depending on the speed with which new candidates are nominated, the replacement justices could be appointed either by Gov. Chet Culver, a democrat who lost re-election on Tuesday, or Terry Branstad, a Republican who previously served as governor.
But it has shaken up plenty of other people.For starters, 76 judges of the high courts and supreme court who were appointed either by Mr Musharraf or by President Asif Zardari have been sacked; 29 judges who were serving at the time of the order and agreed to stay on after it have been reported to the supreme judicial council for misconduct.
The majority, 80%, of members would be elected - at the moment nearly all peers are appointed either by political parties or by the independent House of Lords Commission.
She reported that all of her colleagues who were appointed by the former ruling party had either resigned or had been appointed to rural regions of Turkey, to pressure them to resign.
Officials have been appointed to this task, but have so far done little to combat either terrorism or their utter mutual mistrust.
Stigand was the first non-monk to be appointed to either English archbishopric since before the days of Dunstan (archbishop from 959 to 988).
They have been appointed and are either waiting to take office or within the first few months of tenure.
