Courts & rulings
Pennsylvania · highest court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Elected (partisan)
Chief: The justice with the longest continuous service automatically becomes chief justice (seniority).
Justices
All judges & justices →- Debra Todd
- Christine Donohue
- Kevin M. Dougherty
- David N. Wecht
- Sallie Updyke Mundy
- P. Kevin Brobson
- Daniel D. McCaffery
Roster as of 2026-06-13.
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Adopted 1968. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Pennsylvania constitution means.
Primacy, interprets its own constitution first
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).