List of justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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
Authorised 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)

Philadelphia

Harrisburg

Pittsburgh

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Court locations

Main article: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Current Bench

Name	Born	Joined	Party when first elected	Retention	Year of next retention election	Reaches age 75	Immediate prior position
Debra Todd Chief Justice	(1957-10-15) October 15, 1957 (age 68) 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 72) 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 63) 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 63) 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 63) 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 54) 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 61) 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]

C.J Logan

C.J. Allen

C.J. Chew

J. Willing

C.J. McKean

C.J. Shippen

C.J. Tilghman

C.J. Gibson

C.J. Lewis

C.J. Lowrie

J. Strong

C.J. Woodward

C.J. Agnew

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
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 Warren Williams [2]	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 Warren Williams [3]	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
Daniel McCaffery	2024

Notes

1. 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

1. "Historical List of Supreme Court Justices" . Retrieved August 3, 2021.
2. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Volume 4. Lewis Publishing Company. 1908. pp. 357–358. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
3. Contemporary American Biography: Biographical Sketches of Representative Men of the Day. Atlantic Publishing and Engraving Company. 1895. pp. 145–146. Retrieved November 1, 2025.