Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices and Appellate Court Judges

The tables below identify the current Supreme Court justices and the judges of the Superior and Commonwealth Courts, when their terms expire, when they will be eligible to stand for retention, and when they will be subject to mandatory retirement.  Notations of "not eligible" mean that the justice cannot stand for retention, either because he or she will reach the mandatory retirement age before his or her next retention election would occur or because the justice was appointed to an interim vacancy and is elibile to serve only until the next regularly occurring election.  The justices are listed in the order by which future vacancies will occur. 

KEY: "County" indicates the individual's resident county at the time he/she was initially commissioned to the current office. "CJ" or "PJ" next to a name indicates a Chief Justice or President Judge, respectively. In the "Race" column, "C" denotes Caucasian, and "AA" denotes African American.

The tables below identify the current appellate judges, when their terms expire, when they will be eligible to stand for retention, and when they will be subject to mandatory retirement.  Notations of "not eligible" mean that the judge cannot stand for retention, either because he or she will reach the mandatory retirement age before his or her next retention election would occur or because the judge was appointed to an interim vacancy and is elibile to serve only until the next regularly occurring election. The judges are listed in the order by which future vacancies will occur.  There is one vacancy on the Superior Court which must be filled by an interim appointment.

COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA