List of justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Highest court in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | |
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Established | May 22, 1722 (1722-05-22) (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 | Debra Todd |
Since | October 1, 2022 (2022-10-01) |
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Court locationsCurrent Bench
Name | Born | Joined | Party when first elected | Retention | Year of next retention election | Reaches age 75 | Immediate prior position |
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Debra Todd | (1957-10-15) October 15, 1957 (age 66) in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania | January 7, 2008 | Democratic | 2017 | 2027 | October 15, 2032 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2000–2007) |
Christine Donohue | (1952-12-24) December 24, 1952 (age 71) in Coaldale, Pennsylvania | January 4, 2016 | Democratic | First term | 2025 | December 24, 2027 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2008–2015) |
Kevin Dougherty | (1962-05-19) May 19, 1962 (age 62) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | January 4, 2016 | Democratic | First term | 2025 | May 19, 2037 | Judge, Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas (2001–2015) |
David Wecht | (1962-05-20) May 20, 1962 (age 62) in Baltimore, Maryland | January 4, 2016 | Democratic | First term | 2025 | May 20, 2037 | Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2012–2015) |
Sallie Updyke Mundy | (1962-06-29) June 29, 1962 (age 62) 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 | (1970-11-26) November 26, 1970 (age 53) in Mountoursville, Pennsylvania | January 3, 2022 | Republican | First term | 2031 | November 26, 2045 | Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania (2010-2021) |
Daniel McCaffery | (1964-07-20) July 20, 1964 (age 60) 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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Justice | Joined court | Chief Justice |
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William Welsh | 1684 | |
William Crispin | 1681 | |
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 Washington 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 1887 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Daniel McCaffery | 2024 |
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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