Appointment

Appointment may refer to:

Law

• The prerogative power of an government official or executive to select persons to fill an honorary position or employment in the government (i.e. political appointments, poet laureates).
• Power of appointment, the legal ability of a testator to select another person to dispose of the testator's property
• Recess appointment, a method of filling vacancies under U.S. federal law
• Appointment, a form of Royal Warrant
• List of positions filled by presidential appointment with Senate confirmation
  • Appointment and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States
• Judicial appointments in Canada
• Warrant of Appointment, an official document presented by the President of Ireland to persons upon appointment to certain offices

Religion

• Papal appointment, the oldest method for the selection of the pope
• Appointment of Catholic bishops
• Appointment of Church of England bishops
• Letter of appointment in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints history

Others

• Appointment to the Order of Canada
• Court appointment, one of the traditional positions within a royal, ducal, or noble household
• The Appointment, a 1969 psychological drama
• The Appointment (novel), published in German in 1997 and in English in 2001
• Appointment, a means of funding Postdoctoral research