| Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Established | May 22, 1722 (1684 as Provincial Court) |
| Location | Harrisburg Pittsburgh Philadelphia |
| Composition method | partisan election with "Yes/No" retention vote at end-of-term |
| Authorized by | Constitution of Pennsylvania |
| Judge term length | 10 years |
| Number of positions | 7 |
| Website | Pennsylvania Supreme Court website |
| Chief Justice | |
| Currently | Max Baer |
| Since | April 1, 2021 |
| Lead position ends | December 24, 2022 |
| Jurist term ends | December 24, 2022 |
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Court locations
Current Bench
| Name | Born | Joined | Party when first elected | Retention | Year of next retention election | Reaches age 75 | Immediate prior position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Debra Todd |
October 15, 1957 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania | January 7, 2008 | Democratic | 2017 | 2027 | October 15, 2032 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2000–2007) |
| Christine Donohue | December 24, 1952 in Coaldale, Pennsylvania | January 4, 2016 | Democratic | First term | 2025 | December 24, 2027 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2008–2015) |
| Kevin Dougherty | May 19, 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | January 4, 2016 | Democratic | First term | 2025 | May 19, 2037 | Judge, Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2001–2015) |
| David Wecht | May 20, 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland | January 4, 2016 | Democratic | First term | 2025 | May 20, 2037 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2012–2015) |
| Sallie Updyke Mundy | June 29, 1962 in Elmira, New York | July 21, 2016[note 1] | Republican | First term | 2027 | June 29, 2037 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2010–2016) |
| P. Kevin Brobson | November 26, 1970 in Mountoursville, Pennsylvania | January 3, 2022 | Republican | First term | 2031 | November 26, 2045 | Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania (2010-2021) |
| Daniel McCaffery | July 20, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | January 2, 2024 | Democratic | First term | 2030 | July 20, 2039 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2020–2024) |
Complete list of justices
Following is a complete list of justices:[1]
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C.J Logan
C.J. Allen
C.J. Chew
J. Willing
C.J. McKean
C.J. Shippen
C.J. Tilghman
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C.J. Gibson
C.J. Lewis
C.J. Lowrie
J. Strong
C.J. Woodward
C.J. Agnew
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C.J. Sharswood
C.J. Mercur
C.J. Paxon
C.J. Sterrett
C.J. McCollum
C.J. Fell
C.J. Brown
C.J. Schaffer
C.J. Eagen
| Justice | Joined court | Chief Justice |
|---|---|---|
| William Welsh | 1684 | |
| William Crispin | 1681 | (died at sea before reaching Pennsylvania) |
| William Wood | 1684 | |
| Robert Turner | 1684 | |
| John Eckley | 1684 | |
| Nicholas More | 1684 | 1684 |
| William Clarke | 1684 | 1703–04 |
| James Clapoole | 1685 | |
| Arthur Cooke | 1685 | 1686–90 |
| John Simcock | 1686 | 1690–1701 |
| James Harrison | 1686 | |
| John Cann | 1686 | |
| Joseph Growden | 1690 | 1707–18 |
| Thomas Wynne | 1690 | |
| Griffith Jones | 1690 | |
| Edward Blake | 1690 | |
| William Salway | 1693 | |
| Anthony Morris | 1694 | |
| Cornelius Empston | 1697 | |
| Edward Shippen | 1698 | |
| William Biles | 1699 | |
| Robert French | 1701 | |
| Caleb Pusey | 1701 | |
| Thomas Masters | 1701 | |
| Samuel Finney | 1701 | |
| John Guest | 1701 | 1701–03, 1704, 1705–06 |
| Jasper Yeates | 1704 | |
| William Trent | 1704 | |
| Roger Mompesson | 1706 | 1706–07 |
| Richard Hill | 1711 | |
| Jonathan Dickinson | 1711 | |
| George Roche | 1715 | |
| Robert Assheton | 1716 | |
| David Lloyd | 1717 | 1718–31 |
| Jeremiah Langhorne | 1726 | 1739–42 |
| Thomas Graeme | 1731 | |
| James Logan | 1731 | 1731–39 |
| Thomas Griffitts | 1739 | |
| William Till | 1743 | |
| Lawrence Growden | 1750 | |
| Caleb Cowpland | 1750 | |
| William Allen | 1750 | 1750–74 |
| William Coleman | 1758 | |
| Alexander Steadman | 1764 | |
| John Lawrence | 1767 | |
| Thomas Willing | 1767 | |
| John Morton | 1774 | |
| Benjamin Chew | 1774 | 1774–77 |
| William Augustus Atlee | 1777 | |
| John Evans | 1777 | |
| Thomas McKean | 1777 | 1777–99 |
| George Bryan | 1780 | |
| Jacob Rush | 1784 | |
| Edward Shippen IV | 1791 | 1799–1806 |
| Jasper Yeates | 1791 | |
| William Bradford | 1791 | |
| Thomas Smith | 1794 | |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge | 1800 | |
| William Tilghman | 1806 | 1806–27 |
| John Bannister Gibson | 1816 | 1827–51 |
| Thomas Duncan | 1817 | |
| Morton Cropper Rogers | 1826 | |
| Charles Huston | 1826 | |
| John Tod | 1827 | |
| Frederick Smith | 1828 | |
| John Ross | 1830 | |
| John Kennedy | 1830 | |
| Thomas Sergeant | 1834 | |
| Thomas Burnside | 1845 | |
| Richard Coulter | 1846 | |
| Thomas S. Bell | 1846 | |
| George Chambers | 1851 | |
| Ellis Lewis | 1851 | 1854–57 |
| Walter H. Lowrie | 1851 | 1857–63 |
| George W. Woodward | 1852 | 1863–67 |
| John C. Knox | 1853 | |
| Jeremiah S. Black | 1851 | 1851–54 |
| James Armstrong | 1857 | |
| James Thompson | 1857 | 1867–72 |
| William Strong | 1857 | |
| William A. Porter | 1858 | |
| Gaylord Church | 1858 | |
| John M. Read | 1858 | 1872–73 |
| Daniel Agnew | 1863 | 1873–79 |
| George Sharswood | 1867 | 1879–83 |
| Henry W. Williams | 1868 | |
| Ulysses Mercur | 1872 | 1883–87 |
| Isaac G. Gordon | 1873 | 1887–89 |
| Edward M. Paxson | 1875 | 1889–93 |
| Warren I. Woodward | 1875 | |
| James P. Sterrett | 1877 | 1893–1900 |
| John Trunkey | 1877 | |
| Henry Green | 1879 | 1900 |
| Silas M. Clark | 1882 | |
| Henry W. Williams | 1887 | |
| Alfred Hand | 1888 | |
| J. Brewster McCollum | 1888 | 1900–03 |
| James T. Mitchell | 1888 | 1903–10 |
| Christopher Heydrick | 1891 | |
| John Dean | 1892 | |
| Samuel Gustine Thompson | 1893 | |
| D. Newlin Fell | 1894 | 1910–15 |
| J. Hay Brown | 1899 | 1915–21 |
| S.L. Mestrezat | 1899 | |
| William P. Potter | 1899 | |
| John P. Elkin | 1905 | |
| John Stewart | 1905 | |
| Robert von Moschzisker | 1910 | 1921–30 |
| Robert S. Frazer | 1915 | 1930–36 |
| Emory A. Walling | 1916 | |
| Alexander Simpson Jr. | 1918 | |
| Edward J. Fox | 1918 | |
| John W. Kephart | 1919 | 1936–40 |
| Sylvester B. Sadler | 1921 | |
| William I. Schaffer | 1920 | 1940–43 |
| George W. Maxey | 1930 | 1943–50 |
| James B. Drew | 1931 | 1950–52 |
| William B. Linn | 1932 | |
| Horace Stern | 1936 | 1952–56 |
| H. Edgar Barnes | 1935 | |
| Marion D. Patterson | 1940 | |
| William M. Parker | 1941 | |
| Allen M. Stearne | 1942 | |
| Howard W. Hughes | 1943 | |
| Charles Alvin Jones | 1945 | 1956–61 |
| John C. Bell Jr. | 1950 | 1961–72 |
| Grover C. Ladner | 1950 | |
| T. McKeen Chidsey | 1950 | |
| Michael Musmanno | 1952 | |
| John C. Arnold | 1953 | |
| Benjamin R. Jones | 1957 | 1972–77 |
| Herbert B. Cohen | 1957 | |
| Thomas D. McBride | 1958 | |
| Curtis Bok | 1958 | |
| Michael J. Eagen | 1960 | 1977–80 |
| Anne X. Alpern | 1961 | |
| Henry X. O'Brien | 1961 | 1980–83 |
| Earl S. Keim | 1962 | |
| Samuel J. Roberts | 1963 | 1983–84 |
| Thomas W. Pomeroy Jr. | 1968 | |
| Alexander F. Barbieri | 1971 | |
| Robert N. C. Nix Jr. | 1972 | 1984–96 |
| Louis L. Manderino | 1972 | |
| Israel Packel | 1977 | |
| Rolf Larsen | 1978 | |
| John P. Flaherty Jr. | 1979 | 1996–2001 |
| Bruce William Kauffman | 1980 | |
| Roy Wilkinson Jr. | 1981 | |
| William D. Hutchinson | 1982 | |
| James T. McDermott | 1982 | |
| Stephen Zappala Sr. | 1983 | 2002–03 |
| Nicholas P. Papadakos | 1984 | |
| Juanita Kidd Stout | 1988 | |
| Ralph Cappy | 1989 | 2003–08 |
| Frank J. Montemuro Jr. | 1992 | |
| Ronald D. Castille | 1994 | 2008–14 |
| Russell M. Nigro | 1995 | |
| Sandra Schultz Newman | 1995 | |
| Thomas G. Saylor | 1998 | 2015–21 |
| Michael Eakin | 2002 | |
| William H. Lamb | 2003 | |
| Max Baer | 2004 | 2021–22 |
| Cynthia Baldwin | 2006 | |
| James J. Fitzgerald III | 2007 | |
| Debra Todd | 2008 | 2022– |
| Seamus McCaffery | 2008 | |
| Jane Cutler Greenspan | 2008 | |
| Joan Orie Melvin | 2010 | |
| Correale Stevens | 2013 | |
| Christine Donohue | 2016 | |
| Kevin Dougherty | 2016 | |
| David Wecht | 2016 | |
| Sallie Updyke Mundy | 2016 | |
| Kevin Brobson | 2021 | |
Notes
- ↑ Sallie Updyke Mundy was nominated to fill a vacancy by Governor Tom Wolf and confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate in 2016. She was elected to a full term in 2017.
References
- ↑ "Historical List of Supreme Court Justices". Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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