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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2010 / Active

Anne E. Lazarus

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Anne E. Lazarus is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Stony Brook University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lazarus authored 322 published opinions for the court (2010–2026), plus 12 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Jackson (425 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. 196 of these were attributed to Lazarus 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
2011	Commonwealth v. Jackson†	30 A.3d 516	425
2013	Commonwealth v. Watley· Dissent†	81 A.3d 108	414
2012	Commonwealth v. Brandon†	51 A.3d 231	398
2010	Commonwealth v. Rivera†	10 A.3d 1276	394
2015	Commonwealth v. Leatherby†	116 A.3d 73	362
2011	Commonwealth v. Allen†	24 A.3d 1058	339
2010	Commonwealth v. Brooks· Dissent†	7 A.3d 852	203
2013	Commonwealth v. Collins†	70 A.3d 1245	161
2017	Commonwealth v. Gause†	164 A.3d 532	158
2011	Commonwealth v. BOROVICHKA†	18 A.3d 1242	138
2013	Commonwealth v. Goldman†	70 A.3d 874	125
2016	Commonwealth v. Dantzler· Concurrence†	135 A.3d 1109	121
2012	Commonwealth v. Thompson†	39 A.3d 335	121
2012	In the Interest of B.C.· Dissent†	36 A.3d 601	106
2016	Commonwealth v. Smith· Concurrence†	146 A.3d 257	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 344 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Anne E. Lazarus on?: Anne E. Lazarus is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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