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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 2015 / Active

Collins J. Seitz

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Collins J. Seitz is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

University of Delaware

Judicial Record

In our data, Seitz authored 1,067 published opinions for the court (2015–2025), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Dieckman v. Regency GP LP, Regency GP LLC (120 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. 12 of these were attributed to Seitz 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
2017	Dieckman v. Regency GP LP, Regency GP LLC	155 A.3d 358	120
2015	SIGA Technologies, Inc. v. Pharmathene, Inc.	132 A.3d 1108	84
2018	Town of Cheswold v. Central Delaware Business Park	188 A.3d 810	75
2015	Starling v. State	130 A.3d 316	62
2017	Shawe v. Elting	157 A.3d 142	59
2017	Brinckerhoff v. Enbridge Energy Company, Inc.	159 A.3d 242	55
2017	Shawe v. Elting	157 A.3d 152	53
2017	In Re Investors Bancorp, Inc. Stockholder Litigation	177 A.3d 1208	42
2017	City of Birmingham Retirement & Relief System v. Good	177 A.3d 47	41
2015	Stayton v. Delaware Health Corporation	117 A.3d 521	28
2019	Olenik v. Lodzinski	208 A.3d 704	25
2016	Enrique v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.†	142 A.3d 506	22
2016	McCaffrey v. City of Wilmington	133 A.3d 536	22
2016	West v. State†	143 A.3d 712	19
2019	Taylor v. State	213 A.3d 560	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,069 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 Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Collins J. Seitz on?: Collins J. Seitz is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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