How do judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1961 / Served to 1961

Anne X. Alpern

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Anne X. Alpern was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1981
Tenure: 1961–1961

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Alpern authored 6 published opinions for the court (1961). Most cited: Baur v. Mesta MacHine Co. (25 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 6 of these were attributed to Alpern by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1961	Baur v. Mesta MacHine Co.†	405 Pa. 617	25
1961	Cunningham v. Joseph Horne Co.†	406 Pa. 1	16
1961	Commonwealth Ex Rel. Crist v. Price†	405 Pa. 384	9
1961	Weiss v. Jacobs†	405 Pa. 390	7
1961	Reese v. Tomsic†	405 Pa. 380	5
1961	Moore v. Ohio River Co.†	406 Pa. 272	3

Showing the 6 most-cited of 6 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Anne X. Alpern on?: Anne X. Alpern was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1961. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).