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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2008 / Active

Bernard L. McGinley

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Bernard L. McGinley is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

John Carroll University

Judicial Record

In our data, McGinley authored 243 published opinions for the court (1988–2015), plus 21 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hughes v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole (217 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. 132 of these were attributed to McGinley 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
2009	Hughes v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole· Dissent†	977 A.2d 19	217
2010	Oliver v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	5 A.3d 432	64
2010	Anderson v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	15 A.3d 944	56
2014	Feldman v. Hoffman†	107 A.3d 821	52
2002	Manor v. Department of Public Welfare	796 A.2d 1020	45
1990	American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees v. City of Reading	568 A.2d 1352	37
1993	Turano v. Hunt	631 A.2d 822	35
1992	Isaacs v. Wilkes-Barre City Zoning Hearing Board	612 A.2d 559	35
1988	Dehus v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.	545 A.2d 434	35
2009	Borough of Bedford v. Commonwealth, Department of Environmental Protection· Dissent†	972 A.2d 53	34
2008	Glatfelter Barber Shop v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	957 A.2d 786	34
2003	Mitchell v. Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Mount Penn	838 A.2d 819	34
2012	Yost v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	42 A.3d 1158	33
2014	Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board· Dissent†	106 A.3d 202	32
2015	J.G. Myers and C.A. Reihl v. Com. of PA	128 A.3d 846	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 Bernard L. McGinley on?: Bernard L. McGinley is a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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18 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).