Supreme Court justices are elected for ten year terms, which begin the January following the election and end in January ten years later. If a justice wishes to run for retention for another ten year term, the retention election would be held in the November preceding the expiration of the justice's term. Justices must retire at the end of the year in which they reach age 70.
The table below identifies the current Supreme Court justices, by county, gender and race.
| Supreme Court Justices-7 | ||||||
| Name | County | Gender |
Race |
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| Ronald D. Castille (C.J.) | Philadelphia | M | C | |||
| Thomas G Saylor | Cumberland | M | C | |||
| Max Baer | Allegheny | M | C | |||
| J. Michael Eakin | Cumberland | M | C | |||
| Seamus McCaffery | Philadelphia | M | C | |||
| Debra Todd | Allegheny | F |
C
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| Joan Orie Melvin | Allegheny | F | C | |||
| 5M/2F | no minorities | |||||
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.
