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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2012 / Active

Anne E. Covey

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Anne E. Covey is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Covey authored 380 published opinions for the court (2012–2026), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Fisher v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole (118 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. 104 of these were attributed to Covey 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
2013	Fisher v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole†	62 A.3d 1073	118
2015	Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board· Dissent†	124 A.3d 406	95
2014	Furnari v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	90 A.3d 53	60
2012	Umedman v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	52 A.3d 558	60
2018	Moss v. SCI - Mahanoy Superintendent Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole	194 A.3d 1130	53
2018	Sipps v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review	181 A.3d 479	51
2012	Yates v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole†	48 A.3d 496	44
2019	Borough of Pottstown v. S. Suber-Aponte	202 A.3d 173	42
2017	Negovan v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing	172 A.3d 733	41
2018	Talty v. Unemployment Comp. Bd. of Review	197 A.3d 842	36
2013	Giannopoulos v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation†	82 A.3d 1092	36
2016	M. Morgalo v. S. Gorniak (SCI Albion Accountant) v. Montgomery County Clerk of Courts	134 A.3d 1139	35
2014	Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	106 A.3d 202	32
2014	Markwest Liberty Midstream & Resources, LLC v. Cecil Township Zoning Hearing Board†	102 A.3d 549	30
2012	Richardson v. Pennsylvania Insurance Department†	54 A.3d 420	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 389 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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Anne E. Covey on?: Anne E. Covey is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

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14 years on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).